Ted Cruz has been launching a campaign to discredit Beto O’Rourke.  For good reason.  At most other times, Ted Cruz would likely breeze through a midterm election, but he’s been losing ground to O’Rourke.  For whatever reason, be that the state of the country, O’Rourke’s charisma, Cruz’s lack of charisma, or perhaps a more conscientious electorate.  One way or another, polls that just a few weeks ago showed a substantial lead for Cruz, now show the two neck and neck.  Now, personally, I don’t have a lot of faith in polls, but I do enjoy a good reaction.  And Cruz’s to O’Rourke’s traction has been notably funny.   In an attempt to make O’Rourke look less wholesome and charismatic, Cruz’s directed people’s attention to the fact that O’Rourke was once in a Punk band.  But instead of making people think less of him, people just thought it made him seem cooler.  When Cruz tried to make O’Rourke seem like an immoral pottymouth by telling everyone that he swears on the campaign trail, people just seem to think that makes him seem more real and approachable.  Basically, Cruz is making his opponent look better and more in touch than he is, which may only serve to widen that poll gap.  And what would be more hilarious than Cruz being responsible for helping to push his opponent to victory.