Cruz was loathed by many Republicans and the narrow margin of his win showed.
TX is still a GOP state but a lot of people couldn’t stand Cruz.
Cruz isn’t loathed by real conservatives but he was singled out by the anti-life, anti-constitution Hollywood crowd and was thus hit hard by millions of dollars of negative ads and paid Cruz-bashing internet trolls while Abbott and other GOP candidates were not because their state offices were simply not relevant to the liberal effort to stop SCOTUS nominations.
why would they hate Cruz?
He voted exactly they way he campaigned?
All his votes were in the interests of Texans
The media like to protray him as unlikeable