Of course they are. Its a minor thing and Cruz handled it well.
Tim Skubick has always pretended to be a paragon of fairness, but it's always been clear to me how he intones, and uses body language to impart his leftist opinion. "Cruz is for having guns in schools" with a snark, a head movement and a cringe. Like most liberal journalists, I really think he believes he's being a journalist, just doesn't understand how immersed in and sympathetic he is towards the leftist version of America.
Cruz is great. Win or lose, he'll be an asset for conservatism as long as he's around.