The Senate has a long history of bashing Ted Cruz, one of its own
By Peter W. Stevenson
June 1 at 12:07 PM
Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) hasn't always been the most popular member of the Senate.
His brash style and the way he comported himself in his early days in the Senate earned him public rebukes not just from his Democratic opponents, but also from some of his Republican colleagues.
“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said during the 2016 Republican primaries. Sure, Graham was a Jeb Bush guy, but Cruz was still a candidate in his own party.
And Graham wasn't the only one. Sen. John McCain once called Cruz a “wacko bird” on the Senate floor. John A. Boehner, then the Republican speaker of the House, called Cruz a “jackass” at a Colorado fundraising event in 2015.
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