Cruz had a much bigger profile than that, he was the Texas state solicitor general for a decade and argued cases in front of the USSC.
Keep trying hoss.
Take a look at the news from that time, instead of trying to make up your own history.
Tea Party Win: 3 Reasons Why Ted Cruz Won the Texas Election
https://mic.com/articles/12210/tea-party-win-3-reasons-why-ted-cruz-won-the-texas-election#.2rJsdRhr1August 03, 2012
Once seen as nearly impossible due to his lack of name recognition and funding, former Solicitor General of Texas Ted Cruz beat Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst on July 31 in a primary runoff to win his first election and become the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. This is being billed by “the grassroots” (a phrase Cruz uses every thirty seconds) as the ultimate Tea Party triumph, a slaying of dragons bigger even than the takedown of longtime Senator Lugar of Indiana earlier in this primary cycle.
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How Ted Cruz did it
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/02/how-ted-cruz-did-it/ 08/02/2012
...When Cruz’s eventual campaign manager told me in early 2011 that the former Texas solicitor general would likely run for retiring U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Senate seat, I scoffed at the idea. The race was beyond his reach, he couldn’t raise enough money, he had never been on the ballot before, other likely candidates possessed statewide name recognition and Cruz’s Hispanic surname would hurt him in a Republican primary.
But Cruz and his team were undeterred by the naysayers. They went to work.
In Texas, if a primary candidate wins less than 50% of the vote, the top two primary candidates advance to a runoff. Cruz’s biggest insight was that he could win a runoff against Dewhurst; the hard part would be making it to the runoff....
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Paul Sadler says Ted Cruz is unknown to vast majority of Texans
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/aug/20/paul-sadler/paul-sadler-says-ted-cruz-unknown-vast-majority-te/August 20th, 2012
The night that Ted Cruz won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, the Democrats’ nominee characterized Cruz as an inexperienced man of mystery.
In his July 31, 2012, statement, former state Rep. Paul Sadler, who also won a runoff that night, said: "Because of low turnout and outside money, a loud angry mob inside the Republican Party... nominated Ted Cruz who is untested, untried and unknown to the vast majority of Texans."
