Cruz predicts former foe Trump will 'be overwhelmingly re-elected' in 2020


President Trump better hope the man he once dubbed Lyin' Ted was telling the truth on Monday night, when he declared that "in 2020, Donald Trump will be overwhelmingly re-elected."
Trump was in Houston for a campaign rally in support of Sen. Ted Cruz (R), up for re-election and facing Democrat Beto O'Rourke. Cruz touted his record and accused his opponent of being soft on immigration, The Associated Press reports, but his line about Trump gave him his biggest cheers of the night.
As for Trump, he said Cruz supported him in his quest to cut taxes and regulations, and shared that Cruz has "become a really good friend of mine." Onstage, they patted each other on the back, and it was almost as if 2016 — when Trump ridiculed Cruz's wife's appearance, accused his father of being involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, said he was "choking like a dog" in the Republican presidential primary, and anointed him "Lyin' Ted," while Cruz called Trump "utterly amoral," "a pathological liar," a "sniveling coward," and "narcissist at a level I don't think the country's ever seen" — never happened.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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