Ted Cruz the most hated man in Washington.
Ted Cruz built a brand on being the most hated man in Washington. Now what? Amber Phillips Cruz's reputation, after all, is what brought him to the dance. But his lack of likability wound up hurting him toward the end . On Tuesday, his first full day back in the Senate, he gave no indication to reporters he was drastically changing his strategy. "I look forward to pressing in the Senate the very same things I was pressing for on the campaign trail," he said. Cruz — as he is now — is not that guy. He is arguably the most reviled man in Washington, or at least he was before Trump. Republicans have called him a "jackass" and "Lucifer in the flesh" — and that's just one (mouthy) guy — and have mused that he could be murdered on the Senate floor and nobody would be convicted. What's perhaps more damaging for Cruz's relationships is that many Senate Republicans feel as if they can't trust him. Cruz has been known to pull a pa...