A YUGE number of people love Trump, no doubt, but the argument you were having was about comparative “dislike” in both directions and I contend that there is no easy way to quantify that and that even if you could there is no way to tie that to consequences.
It will get “quantified”, in TEXAS, at senatorial election time. Nowhere else.
Cruz will have gazillion$$$ to spend on rehabilitating his sorry carcass, so “yes”, he needs a decent and capable opponent and some PAC push back to level the cash field advantage, but soo many are hoping that happens.
Right now McCaul is the man. He sits on the Homeland Security Committee, appears regularly on FOXMegyn Corp cable and has a profile of seriousness, and is totally free of the Cruz/Obama/Hillary clinically proportioned level narcissism.
We will be actvely trying to banish the sob to the nearest corner, where he can hawk to the rubes the flag, the Bible and the Constitution.
Cruz was small on paper, but big in the mouth. He rode those three under-pinnings hard and undercut everyone of them.