Cruz’s office did not immediately return request for comment. His campaign spokesman Rick Tyler told our colleague Katie Zezima that Cruz “voted for cloture, that was the vote that mattered.”
So far this year, Cruz has missed 25 percent of all Senate votes, according to data tracked by Congressional Quarterly. He has a voting participation score of 74.8 percent.
By comparison, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who also has his eye on the White House, has voted 81.6 percent of the time. And Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), another presidential candidate, has managed to vote 98.9 percent of the time this year.
If Paul can juggle both, why can’t Cruz?
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