Yep. It’s totally stupid. Will bring them nothing but grievance from the media and won’t garner them 1 vote.
The story is included, as it should have been, in Cruz’s autobiography so it’s not something he and his campaign necessarily decided to push out there. If they have then I’d agree it’s pointless. Either way it won’t garner the kind of hagiographic treatment that, for example, Gore received for his maudlin story about the lung cancer death of his sister and his supposed bedside epiphany about the evil tobacco weed. Nothing can be allowed to interfere with the Ministry of Propaganda narrative.