“He shut down the federal government in 2013”
You screwed up your talking points there lonely.
The reality is, he didn’t shut it down, barry did
But hey, keep typing, you could write a fantasy novel!
He did, but the republicans still got blamed. But Cruz was able to polish his conservative credentials which is all he cared about.
Now if he was a master politician he would have worked out how to get Obama blamed for shutting the government instead of the GOP getting hammered and actually achieved something useful. But that's pretty much par for the course, lots of posturing and few useful results.