Mitchell: Senate’s Dislike of Cruz Should Have Made Candidacy ‘a Non-Starter’

Andrea Mitchell: Senate’s Dislike of Cruz Should Have Made Candidacy ‘a Non-Starter’ (NewsBusters)

Closing out the Wednesday edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell remarked how the presidential candidacy of Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex) would have been sunk and declared “a non-starter” under so-called normal circumstances due to so many of Cruz’s Senate colleagues having a disdain for him.

Mitchell was speaking with former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman and MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele when she exclaimed: “The conventional wisdom has always been that Ted Cruz had so alienated all his colleagues that he was a non-starter to be a national candidate, but this year, that could be an advantage.”

Steele wholeheartedly agreed and elaborated on the idea that this “was something from the very beginning as far as Cruz was concerned” with the premise that “the less the folks in D.C. liked him the better.”