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Play of the Day: Second Place for Cruz Never Felt So Good

The Texas lawmaker was runner-up in the CPAC straw poll.

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Ted Cruz fell short in the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, losing to Kentucky's "raging libertarian" Rand Paul . However, Jon Stewart shows that straw poll patterns are actually in Cruz's favor going into 2016.

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