Lawyers spend their lives giving speeches. That might be a clue.
However, Ted was the leading speaker on his college Debate teams .. both Princeton and Harvard.
And .. Ted is a Constitutional Scholar - who Dershowitz (his Professor) called the most brilliant he had ever taught.
I think those qualities are more important. Maybe you should let your family know that.
I realize this and I know all those points on Cruz. I can try to sway and point this out but it helps little. Looking at all the polls around, Cruz isn’t moving up much. Something isn’t connecting for people, I suppose we could just declare it’s because everybody is too stupid to know better but that doesn’t gain any ground. I want Cruz to win, I want to vote for him but at this rate, I won’t get the opportunity.