Al Hunt: “On paper, they look like first cousins: They are both 44, freshman senators who beat the establishment Republican candidate, and sons of Cuban immigrants who fled the right-wing Batista regime. They also are self-styled Ronald Reagan conservatives with rich political sugar daddies to give them staying power in a protracted fight.”
“Yet their differences are stark. Cruz is much more confrontational; Rubio has been able to work better, on occasion, with Democrats. Cruz, a champion college and law school debater and clerk to the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, seems smarter. Rubio, once the speaker of the Florida House, seems smoother.”
