Opinion | Ted Cruz's Jan. 6 ties are worse than we thought

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Opinion | Ted Cruz's Jan. 6 ties are worse than we thought
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.ZeeshanAleem: It’s widely known that Sen. Ted Cruz is a shameless opportunist. But could he be even more shameless and opportunistic than we believed?

, Cruz and Trump began working on plans to undermine the election two days after Election Day, to the surprise of many of Cruz’s aides. Cruz spoke to Trump directly on the phone, acted as a Trump surrogate spreading 2020 disinformation on Fox News and pitched himself as a legal asset because of his experience working with George W. Bush’s campaign during the recount of the Florida vote in 2000.

But perhaps the most shocking possibility raised by the Post’s reporting is the implication raised by Cruz and Eastman’s friendship. Cruz and Eastman met while clerking for then-U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig nearly 30 years ago. Cruz’s plan calling for the Senate to delay the certification of the 2020 election results seemed to be running on a “parallel” track to Eastman’s legal memo.

Cruz’s ideological commitments have long been secondary to his political ambition. While the Texas senator paints himself as a pure ideologue, he

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