You could hear her “snuffling” while he was talking and the camera was just on him. You know she was distressed by his answers and wanted to jump in.
Watching his face as she “framed “the questions was priceless.
Cruz was masterful-on point and he knows the target.
What I see in Cruz is a man who has done his work....’knows’ how gov. works AND how it should not work and for this knows how to answer.
Further he knows how the media works and journalists operate so he is prepared to “control” the conversaton where it needs it.
HE sort of reminds me of Newt in his control of what he knows and needs to be said. And like with Newt...they really don’t like to interview him because they know they can’t trip them up.