Very interesting, lapsus. Thanks for the info. As I said, I didn’t follow this stuff being interested in my own state, of course.
This election has been a real meatgrinder - candidates are being put to the test, finding out what they are really made of in ways that haven't been seen in years, if ever. Cruz just isn't making the cut - there's been moment after moment for him to show his vaunted intellect, opportunities to hit his stride as the bona fide conservative "outsider" he claims to be, and has bungled it over and over. I can only conclude that he isn't the person I thought he was, doesn't have the sort of skillsets I thought he did. Initially I took umbrage to Trump calling Cruz "Lyin' Ted" because after all, he was my senator, I worked to get him elected, voted for him and all, but as I later realized, Trump had his number all along and everything Cruz has said and done since has only served to reinforce that perception.