Rings true....based on everything we now know about this character Cruz.
It's a slapdown of Texans, inveigled into voting Cruz into the Senate, promising to be their voice in DC, saying he was a scrappy outsider running against a wealthy opponent (who just happened to get G/S to hand him over a million dollars).
After only 10 months in the Senate, his promises and his constituents were forgotten.......his long-laid plans for the presidency commenced. Like it was an afterthought he just happened to glom onto.
That means Cruz is a sociopath and not even one with the talent to pose as a normal human being.