Sen. Ted Cruz.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has made another questionable hair choice.

As former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial wrapped up Friday, observers noted something particularly odd about one of the jurors: His hair. Cruz's salt-and-pepper locks were slicked back in a style that could only be described as a budding Morgan Wallen.

A review of recent photographs of the senator revealed he'd been rocking the heavily gelled look for weeks now.

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And given his past refusal to follow pandemic lockdown rules, his new 'do is probably a deliberate choice and not just Cruz's inability to get to a barber.

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The new look comes about two years after Cruz emerged from a congressional recess with a potentially revolutionary beard, and has kept it ever since.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.