I'd compare Cruz to Al Gore's sore loser attempts to take the White House at the end of 2000, only that wouldn't be entirely fair - to Gore. Gore could at least claim that he won the nationwide popular vote and was close enough to the margin of error in Florida to call a recount. Ted doesn't even have that excuse.
I remember it well. Gore tried every nasty trick in the RAT playbook and invented a few they didn't have. Cruz and Gore seem cut from the same cloth.