Ted Cruz thunders into a new year, while fellow Republicans seek softer tone

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“Good impressions are pretty good, but actually bad impressions are even better,” Sen. Ted Cruz said Friday at a Texas Public Policy Foundation conference, admitting that his staffers cringed every time he tried to do an imitation of someone he was quoting.

Cruz smiled and then channeled his Senate predecessor, Phil Gramm, who introduced Cruz at the conference.

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