JAKE SILVERSTEIN: Last night I Googled “Ted Cruz rising star” and got more than 40,000 results. What does it feel like to be the man of the moment?TED CRUZ: Well, it has been an extraordinary journey. When we started this campaign a year and a half ago, I was at 2 percent. There wasn’t a soul in the state that gave us a prayer. And what happened was that we saw a team come together of activists and grassroots leaders who just poured their energy into this campaign. And that’s why we won [the Republican primary runoff].JS: Your story is an unusual one: father from Cuba, mother from Delaware, born in Canada, raised in Houston, ended up at Harvard Law. There are certain parallels to Barack Obama. I…The post Ted Cruz’s Excellent Adventure appeared first on Texas Monthly.