Cruz also ran a terrible low-energy campaign with many, many missteps. He got started late, continued to piss off his supporters in the early parts (he made them pay for campaign signs in an evident attempt to make a profit) and basically didn’t fix these and other problems (”I’m Ted Cruz! You should vote for me! Thanks!” being his entire message for a while) until October. Trump had to come bail his arse out.
Agree - I remember Trump having to come here. Just shows how lucky we were that Trump stepped into that Republican hornet’s nest in 2016.
Anyway, if Cruz is smart he’ll retire in 2024 and take a nice paying lobbyist job, or maybe (if God is with us), a Pence Administration job.
Political life won’t get any easier for him or any other Republican in Texas as the years move forward...and Cruz clearly is not up to the task.