October 20, 2016 01:22 PM UTC

Gardner, Cruz Crisscross U.S. for Senate Majority

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• by: Colorado Pols

As Ernest Luning reported via Twitter, former GOP Presidential candidate and current Texas Senator Ted Cruz is coming to Colorado on Wednesday to stump for Colorado Senate candidate Darryl Glenn.

Cruz endorsed Glenn prior to the June 28th Primary, which no doubt helped the El Paso County Commissioner on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Colorado. Cruz’s latest visit to Colorado on behalf of Glenn has been about as “under the radar” as you can get in politics, in part because stumping for Glenn in any capacity is virtually pointless.

And where was Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) this week? Why, in Missouri, of course, campaigning for embattled Sen. Roy Blunt. As KBIA radio reports:

In a sign of how competitive Missouri’s U.S. Senate contest has become, the two major candidates – Republican incumbent Roy Blunt and Democrat Jason Kander – held dueling roundtables with area military veterans…

…Blunt’s roundtable featured a similar mix of veterans and was held in Overland at the VFW hall. He was joined by fellow GOP Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Cory Gardner of Colorado. Cotton is an Army veteran.

If you’re scoring at home, it would be difficult to gauge the relative merits of campaign visits from Cruz or Gardner. In fact, Gardner’s presence in Missouri is a bit of an ominous sign for Blunt; earning the support of Gardner has not generally turned out well for candidates in prominent races. Gardner did endorse Cruz for President, but only after his first choice, Sen. Marco Rubio, flamed out of the race in February. After the Cruz for President campaign fizzled, Gardner eventually decided to back Donald Trump for President (Gardner has since called on Trump to drop out of the race for President).

We’re not sure what the moral of this story might be, other than to say that nobody seems to want to be seen with Darryl Glenn at the moment.