Aha! I think?
The way David Brat beat Eric Cantor is Cantor took the TEA threat seriously and spent millions of dollars attacking Brat by name, who nobody’d heard of until then, and you see what happened next.
Denying Cruz name recognition is priority 1 for the MSM. They exclude him from the POTUS polls. Then Charlie Cook came out the other day saying either a TEA Senator or a mid-western Governor would be the GOP nominee. Being a lefty, that was a *warning* to the RATS from Cook.
That’s why they dread another shutdown, the grubered Americans who ditched their RATS Nov. 4 will be able to put the shutdown together with a name and a face.