![]() But it’ll be a tricky balancing act to stay true to his right-wing firebrand persona while also trying to reach out to the types of swing voters who nearly sent him packing in 2018. ![]() Now, facing an unpredictable cycle that lands in a presidential election year, Cruz is trying to get ahead of those inevitable attacks from Democrats. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., memorably quipped that someone could kill Cruz on the Senate floor and no senator would vote to convict. Cruz lost independent voters to O'Rourke, according to NBC News exit polls.Ĭruz developed a reputation as a pugnacious partisan in his first year when he spurred a 17-day government shutdown in 2013 that many Republicans wanted to avoid and which failed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. O’Rourke spent his campaign belittling Cruz as “all talk and no action” - a senator who’d spent six years slinging partisan arrows and delivering nothing for Texas. Tricky balancing actĬruz survived a near-miss in his 2018 campaign, edging out Democratic rival Beto O’Rourke by a mere 2.6 points in the state, a Republican stronghold. “It gives me the ability to fight for 30 million Texans in a way that has real, meaningful impact," he added. Having the responsibility of being the ranking member for the Commerce Committee is enormously beneficial to Texas.” “The Commerce Committee has vast jurisdiction over nearly half the U.S. “I think campaigns should be about issues and substance and results,” Cruz said, sitting in his Russell Senate Building Office, where three of his bills that President Barack Obama signed into law hang on the wall. The panel covers many key industries that have “deep footprints” in Texas, he said, from space and airlines to telecom, tech and energy. As Cruz sees it, his new perch as the ranking member of the Commerce Committee will be a boon for fellow Texans - and, in turn, beneficial for his re-election campaign.
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