Ted Cruz makes STARTLING (and HILARIOUS) admission about his relationship with Beto O'Rourke

Greg P. | 10:17 AM on July 16, 2019

The NYT’s Nate Cohn finally admitted last night that his comparison of failing 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke to Luke Skywalker has been all wrong and that the Texas lib is not quite the ~~droid~~ candidate Dems were looking for:

For about a year now, I've been comparing Beto to Luke Skywalker.
He's the famous hero, for Democrats, of an epic of good versus evil, against one of the greatest villians of all time. Darth Vader, Ted Cruz; Star Wars in a Galaxy far away; Texas Senate in the Trump midterm

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) July 15, 2019

But in reality, Skywalker wasn't acted well and his character is woefully underdeveloped. He couldn't hold his own movie–that's Han Solo–even if everyone would line up and wear costumes to the premier. It would get nominated for zero awards, and be forgotten.

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) July 15, 2019

That said, we're at the point where my unflattering comparison–that he's really a mortal Mark Hamill, not heroic Luke Skywalker–is looking generous. I mean, he's not a star. But there's a reason he at least did what he did in Texas, and there's upside from 0% in NH

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) July 15, 2019

But backing up to Nate’s first tweet, if Ted Cruz is Darth Vader, then he’s Luke’s father, regardless of which Luke he’s talking about: