They are going to think Cruz is evasive. There is no avoiding that take by the average person who has no clue about how dysfunctional the senate is, and how just about every decision is debated with games and slick rhetoric, instead of direct, honest debate.
Cruz had no choice, he said Schmucker was the slimeball running the show and it took that kind of maneuver to win the war. Even dunce head Kelly could understand it after the debate and she said she researched him all the way to the beginning and hr NEVER changed his position.