Do whatever floats your boat. If you want to think a senator responding to the questions is a negative after conservatives have for years screamed that senators refuse to respond to their voters, I don’t think Ted’s the guy with an unhinged issue.
Nah, he’s not unhinged, but he is pandering to the unhinged, and obviously it works because so many of the conspiracy theorists are running around trumpeting that Cruz agrees with them (even though he said nothing of the sort).