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    <title data-rh="true">Ted Cruz 2.0? 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Senator Adjusts With Trump in Office and Houston Under Water</span></h1><figure class="ResponsiveMedia-media--32g1o ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi ResponsiveMedia-sizeMedium--3hVlk styles-ledeMedia--1s9BI ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi" aria-label="media" role="group" itemProp="associatedMedia" itemID="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz1/09dc-cruz1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" itemType="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><div class="ResponsiveMedia-container--G2JS6 ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Image</span><img alt="" class="Image-image--2zb04" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz1/09dc-cruz1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" srcSet="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz1/09dc-cruz1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz1/09dc-cruz1-jumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz1/09dc-cruz1-popup.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 650w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz1/09dc-cruz1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 2048w" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw"/></div><figcaption class="ResponsiveMedia-caption--1dUVu Media-caption--wlc0l ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi" itemProp="caption description"><span class="ResponsiveMedia-captionText--2WFdF Media-captionText--2e27a">Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, visited Hurricane Harvey relief volunteers on Sunday at a church distributing supplies in Port Arthur, Tex.</span><span class="ResponsiveMedia-credit--3F-q_ Media-credit--1ZFho" itemProp="copyrightHolder"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Credit</span><span>Eric Thayer for The New York Times</span></span></figcaption></figure><div class="styles-bylineTimestamp--2J2fe styles-toneNews--29Vp_"><div class="elementStyles-byline--33rWc styles-byline--Dn1Bu styles-toneNews--29Vp_"><div class="Byline-bylineGroup--2XIy_"><p class="">By<!-- --> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/by/matt-flegenheimer" class="Byline-bylineAuthor--d8i20 elementStyles-authors--voZdU">Matt Flegenheimer</a></p></div></div><time class="Timestamp-timestamp--3FJff elementStyles-timestamp--26VGL styles-timestamp--KJFCK" dateTime="2017-09-08" itemProp="datePublished" content="2017 - 09 - 08">Sept. 8, 2017</time></div></header><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was just getting going, summoning his down-home artillery from the Senate floor — the faith-flecked tales, the weathered statesman’s gaze, the theatrical pauses deployed not so long ago before caucus-inclined Iowans.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“I rise today in support of heroes,” Mr. Cruz said sternly, “in support of unity and in support of love and compassion.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">These are not the three nouns most often associated with Mr. Cruz’s congressional life, which has included, among other stands, a vote against a relief measure for storm victims in New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">But the forecast has changed. This week, it was time for Mr. Cruz, once perhaps the Capitol’s least compromising conservative, to push a massive federal aid package for his own state.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">As he prepares for a re-election race next year, Mr. Cruz is facing perhaps his most meaningful challenge yet: helping to see that millions of constituents — in his hometown, Houston, and beyond — get the help they need in the costly years ahead. He is advocating billions in aid after a Senate career often focused on cutting spending and building a national following as an avatar of unbending dogma.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">It was here that Mr. Cruz, 46, rocketed to conservative stardom in 2013 enshrining a reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” into the official record during a 21-hour talk-a-thon that protested the Affordable Care Act and accomplished nothing in particular.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">It was here, in 2015, where he called his majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a liar, in a remarkable breach of Senate decorum that encapsulated his relationship with many fellow Republicans.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">And it was here where another fellow Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-dinner/index.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3"> joked</a> that any homicide committed against Mr. Cruz would go unpunished, so long as the other 99 senators filled the jury pool.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Through less than five years in the body — before a presidential run that few thought would last so long and after a humbling defeat that has spawned a kinder, gentler “Cruz 2.0,” as his staff frames it — Mr. Cruz has undergone a handful of evolutions.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">He has long positioned himself, improbably, as the capital’s consummate outsider, despite a résumé that tickles all corners of the Washington establishment: Princeton, Harvard, Supreme Court clerk, the George W. Bush campaign, the George W. Bush administration.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">He is President Trump’s erstwhile nemesis — <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/magazine/donald-trump-shares-his-opponent-branding-secrets.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">“Lyin’ Ted!”</a> on the 2016 presidential primary campaign trail — who has become one of the White House’s most reliable partners in Congress.</p><figure class="ResponsiveMedia-media--32g1o ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi ResponsiveMedia-sizeMedium--3hVlk ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi" aria-label="media" role="group" itemProp="associatedMedia" itemID="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz2/09dc-cruz2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" itemType="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><div class="ResponsiveMedia-container--G2JS6 ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Image</span><img alt="" class="Image-image--2zb04" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz2/09dc-cruz2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" srcSet="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz2/09dc-cruz2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz2/09dc-cruz2-jumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz2/09dc-cruz2-popup.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 650w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz2/09dc-cruz2-superJumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 2048w" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw"/></div><figcaption class="ResponsiveMedia-caption--1dUVu Media-caption--wlc0l ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi" itemProp="caption description"><span class="ResponsiveMedia-captionText--2WFdF Media-captionText--2e27a">Speaking in July 2016 at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Mr. Cruz pointedly invited conservatives to “vote your conscience,” leaving the stage to ferocious boos.</span><span class="ResponsiveMedia-credit--3F-q_ Media-credit--1ZFho" itemProp="copyrightHolder"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Credit</span><span>Todd Heisler/The New York Times</span></span></figcaption></figure><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Now, Mr. Cruz has been compelled again to reach for a different gear.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">He has toured flood zones with local officials (“We saw an alligator swimming across Clay Road”), removed drywall from a damaged home with his family (“Caroline, the 9-year-old, we discovered, can wield a mean hammer”), greeted Coast Guard heroes with dazzling torsos.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Almost every one of them ripped,” he marveled on the Senate floor, holding for dramatic pauses pregnant enough to require bed rest. “These are guys that know their way around a weight room.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">He has served chili to the suddenly homeless inside a Houston convention center, wearing a hairnet that aides quickly insisted he cover with a baseball cap. He has embraced congregants at a black church in Port Arthur. He has hugged liberally.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">But Mr. Cruz’s turn as a unifier has been complicated, as ever, by a yearslong pursuit of conservative purity. After Hurricane Sandy lashed New York and New Jersey in 2012, Mr. Cruz joined more than 20 of his Texas colleagues, including Senator John Cornyn, in opposing a more than $50 billion relief package, arguing that the bill was loaded with projects unrelated to the region’s recovery.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Fact checkers <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/29/ted-cruzs-claim-that-two-thirds-of-the-hurricane-sandy-bill-had-nothing-to-do-with-sandy/" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">have generally sided</a> against Mr. Cruz’s suggestion that a large majority of the Sandy relief bill was directed at non-storm efforts. And lawmakers in the Northeast, most notably Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a fellow Republican, have taken particular delight in accusing Mr. Cruz of hypocrisy.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Senator Cruz was playing politics in 2012, trying to make himself look like the biggest conservative in the world,” Mr. Christie <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/politics/chris-christie-ted-cruz-hurricane-aid-harvey-new-jersey-sandy-cnntv/index.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">told CNN</a> last week. It was “disgusting,” he added, to see Mr. Cruz “in a recovery center with victims standing behind him as a backdrop.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Cruz said he was “quite confident that nobody in Texas gives a flip what Chris Christie has to say.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“And it seems not many people in New Jersey do either,” he added, appearing to allude to Mr. Christie’s anemic approval ratings. “Chris should go back to the beach.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Mr. Cruz and his advisers are acutely aware that his job — and the substance of his re-election campaign against Representative Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat from El Paso — changed the moment Hurricane Harvey made landfall, elevating constituent services well above any national aspirations, even if Mr. Cruz retains an ambition to seek the presidency again.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“The number one path to re-elect is doing a good job,” said Jeff Roe, Mr. Cruz’s campaign manager in his presidential run and a top adviser on his upcoming race.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Mr. Cruz seems certain that the storm fallout will not test the bounds of his conservative orthodoxy, recalling in the interview that constituents had made a point of requesting federal assistance unencumbered by Washington pork. (An aide, walking with him in the Senate basement, quickly produced a handwritten note, which Mr. Cruz said came from a pastor at the Port Arthur church, asking that funding “be allocated immediately and not have other projects be attached.”)</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">As Mr. Cruz spoke, though, Mr. Trump was striking a deal with Democrats tying Harvey relief to a debt ceiling increase and a stopgap spending measure — the sort of arrangement the senator would have abhorred under any other circumstances.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">He did not seem to relish it this week, either, even as he announced his support.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“I would have much preferred a clean Harvey relief bill,” he said, calling it “unfortunate” that the White House and congressional leaders had decided otherwise.</p><figure class="ResponsiveMedia-media--32g1o ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi ResponsiveMedia-sizeMedium--3hVlk ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi" aria-label="media" role="group" itemProp="associatedMedia" itemID="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz3/09dc-cruz3-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" itemType="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><div class="ResponsiveMedia-container--G2JS6 ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Image</span><div class="LazyImage-imageContainer--26dUd"><img alt="" class="Image-image--2zb04 LazyImage-lazyload--1mWsm" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz3/09dc-cruz3-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&amp;auto=webp" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw" data-srcset="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz3/09dc-cruz3-articleLarge.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz3/09dc-cruz3-jumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz3/09dc-cruz3-popup.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 650w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/09/us/09dc-cruz3/09dc-cruz3-superJumbo.jpg?quality=100&amp;auto=webp 2048w"/></div></div><figcaption class="ResponsiveMedia-caption--1dUVu Media-caption--wlc0l ResponsiveMedia-toneNews--pMwMi" itemProp="caption description"><span class="ResponsiveMedia-captionText--2WFdF Media-captionText--2e27a">Mr. Cruz opposed a more than $50 billion relief package after Hurricane Sandy lashed New York and New Jersey in 2012, but he has spoken out forcefully for Hurricane Harvey relief.</span><span class="ResponsiveMedia-credit--3F-q_ Media-credit--1ZFho" itemProp="copyrightHolder"><span class="accessibility-visuallyHidden--OUeHR">Credit</span><span>Eric Thayer for The New York Times</span></span></figcaption></figure><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">It was the latest twitch in a president-senator relationship bizarre even by the standards of Mr. Trump’s Washington. For Cruz skeptics in the Capitol, and there remain many, his support for Mr. Trump since the election is held up as evidence of hollow principles.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">In a final plea to voters last year in Indiana, hours before <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/us/politics/ted-cruz.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">dropping out of the race</a>, Mr. Cruz appraised Mr. Trump as a “pathological liar” divorced from basic morality, suggesting that with a Trump primary victory that night, “this country could well plunge into the abyss.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">For months after that, he refused to endorse a prospective Abyss administration, despite considerable pressure from many of his own voters. Speaking in July 2016 at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Mr. Cruz pointedly invited conservatives to <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-mike-pence-rnc.html" title="" class="styles-link--1Tap3">“vote your conscience,”</a> leaving the stage to ferocious boos.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">But by September, as the presidential race seemed to tighten and Mr. Cruz’s team feared attracting blame for a narrow Hillary Clinton victory, Mr. Cruz endorsed his former rival anyway.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">The months since have been an exercise in senatorial rebranding.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Mr. Cruz has earned praise from several lawmakers as an unlikely consensus builder among hard-right and moderate Republicans as the party sought (and, at least initially, failed) to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. He has dined with colleagues from across the Senate majority.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">He has moved even Mr. McConnell to lurch toward a compliment.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“From working to find a path forward to repeal and replace Obamacare with common-sense market reforms to responding to one of the worst disasters Texas has seen, Ted’s been a constructive player trying to get results,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement on Thursday.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Others are still inclined to hedge on Mr. Cruz’s merits.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Asked last month whether Mr. Cruz had returned to the Senate a changed man after his presidential campaign, Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, allowed that “some people might say that.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Asked if he counted himself among those “some people,” Mr. Wicker repeated himself.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Democrats can be less subtle. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota devoted a full chapter of his recent book to Mr. Cruz, titling the section, “Sophistry.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz,” Mr. Franken writes. “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">But Mr. Cruz has extended bipartisan invitations for one new venture: a regular basketball game, for aides and fellow senators, in the Dirksen office building, where a court is said to bear a blood stain from his chief of staff, David Polyansky.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">“Endurance of a camel,” Mr. Polyansky said of his boss, observing that while far younger participants stagger over to chug water between games, Mr. Cruz typically waits on the court for the next one to begin.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW elementStyles-toneNews--sRTft">Then there is the unwritten rule, familiar to indulgent staff members and persistent rivals in this chamber of egos.</p><p class="Paragraph-paragraph--2eXNE elementStyles-paragraph--3EIcW 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