Cruz is a threat to the Republicrat Party, which is why the media hate and fear him. They know he is smart, they know he can debate them into the ground, so they must poison the public’s perception of him.
very true
"If he were to run, Cruz's core support would come a from conservative base fed up with Washington, which could care less what Collins, Flake or most other Republican senators think."
And they're absolutely right, which I put in the "Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then" category...