Ted Cruz said Thursday that he has no plans to make up with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling the intrigue about their relationship the sort of inside baseball that makes voters “so frustrated with Washington”. But the public acrimony between Cruz and the Senate’s rank-and-file Republicans hasn’t prevented his team from trying to make nice with key leaders in the upper chamber, according to multiple recent reports.

First, Cruz to CNN’s Dana Bash on him and McConnell:

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