[Texicanus]

You may be right if Cruz was working a deal with McConnel, but I can’t see him threatening someone as powerful as McConnel during his first term in the Senate unless he had no choice. I always thought McConnel was a RINO and not a true conservative Republican. Thanks for the input.

[Just mythoughts]

McConnel is a rat/rhino. Problem for Cruz was rat/rhino McConnel would not expose himself totally with such a brazen move to get the Senate to resolve Cruz eligible. That was a huge miscalculation on Ted Cruz's part. As he already demonstrated he was willing to play rat/rhino politics. There is a reason why none of his fellow senators endorsed him. Ted Cruz outsmarted himself. Even playboy Rubio was more like able on both sides of the Senate than Cruz.