I am sure it was a bribe to satisfy the powers that be in the dem party.
Anyway, the mess with cruz is irrelevant since he did not win, will never be on the supreme court and thank goodness for that. We will keep re-electing him for our senator for as long as he wants to be one. He will be the only thorn in the side of the republican elite, just like he has until now.
If we could just clone him and get rid of the Rino E senator we got now.
He may have bee a "thorn in others' sides", but a completely irrelevant one, who has NEVER managed to do ANYTHING "conservative" when he has deigned to grace the Senate Chamber with his insufferable presence.