With slight misgivings, Cruz is still my second choice. But the more I observe him, the more I SEE things I then cannot UNsee. His hand gestures look so “practised” and mechanical. He seems to hunch forward with rounded shoulders when he’s emphasizing a point, too. Just things I notice.
FWIW, it’s incremental. You’ll just keep seeing those things, and nothing to contradict them, and at some point, it gets over-the-top. For me the final straw was the ubiquitous advertising over the Christmas holidays.