Today we were all given a great gift from CNN's Chris Moody, who spent hours combing through campaign footage posted to YouTube by the campaign team of presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
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By law, campaigns can't coordinate with SuperPACs, so many of them "share" raw video on YouTube. Megan Apper and Andrew Kaczynski Buzzfeed originally discovered this discrepancy in July. If you have the link, you can watch it.
Finally we were able to see the real side of Cruz's family. AND WE ATE IT UP. Who couldn't help but love Cruz's mother Eleanor when she gives him that side eye?
We all fell for Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi, when she was asked on the spot to recite the first few lines of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
And we all certainly related to cousin Joey's annoyance at being forced to give more than one awkward man-hug.
Goddamnit, we even related to Ted Cruz's murderous face when the cameraman would not stop coughing.
Please don't get me started on Diego, Ted Cruz's cousin who we all could not help but fall madly in love with.
Offscreen, Audrey told Diego, "I don't know what else to say." But don't worry, Diego -- who is all of us -- knew exactly what to do.
And God bless you, CNN.
