Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday described the Democrats' run in the midterm elections as a "crushing defeat" for Republicans and called on the party to fulfill its economic promises in the next election cycle. "This wasn't just a bad midterm election like 2006, it was a Watergate-level rejection," said Cruz, who described the shift to Democrats across the country as a "blue tsunami." He continued, “Texas is blue, a hard sentence to say. "The details.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday described the Democrats' run in the midterm elections as a "crushing defeat" for Republicans and called on the party to fulfill its economic promises in the next election cycle. "This wasn't just a bad midterm election like 2006, it was a Watergate-level rejection," said Cruz, who described the shift to Democrats across the country as a "blue tsunami." He continued, “Texas is blue, a hard sentence to say. "The details.