'Beautiful Ted': Trump and Cruz bury the hatchet as midterm anxiety mounts

Their bitter 2016 rivalry was all but forgotten at a Houston rally, where Trump lent his support to the embattled Texas senator

Two years ago they were sworn enemies, but with a handshake, a hug and a sycophantic prediction that “in 2020, Donald Trump will be overwhelmingly reelected as president of the United States,” the real-estate mogul’s victory over the Texas senator was complete.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Ted Cruz is coming under extreme pressure from his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, in the fight for his Texas senate seat. Trump is turning to an increasingly fantastical narrative of fear and falsehoods as he tries to shore up Republican control of Congress in the November midterm elections.

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