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his self-described “cocky” nature.</p> <p>In adolescence, young adulthood, and now as a junior senator running for the presidency, he has rubbed people the wrong way – and he is self-aware about it.</p> <p>“When I was in junior high and a geek, I thought that popularity was the Holy Grail,” Cruz said in a New York City interview with The Texas Tribune about his new memoir, <em>A Time for Truth</em>.</p> <p><span>“And in high school, where I achieved some modicum of popularity, I discovered it wasn’t all that,” he added. “That it was far more important to stick to your principles and maintain your integrity.”</span></p> <p>Cruz's youthful efforts to fit in, according to his memoir, included<span style="line-height: 1.35;"> changing his first name from from “Felito” to “Ted” and signing up for sports teams. It also meant downplaying his intellect by tucking his ace grades away from other kids' sight. </span></p><div class="ad_container ad_container--adify"> <div class="ad adunit mobile tablet standard" data-adunit="TexasTribune_Content_StoryPage_InsideStory_468x60"> </div> </div> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;">He had a relatively charmed trajectory through the Ivy Leagues to a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship and onto George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign. </span>He was high enough in the food chain as a policy aide at the campaign's Congress Avenue headquarters to earn a Bush nickname, “Theodore,” a term of endearment for his serious nature. And as a litigating attorney, Cruz played an integral role during the 2000 Florida recount.</p> <p>Cruz came away from the campaign experience with big dreams of serving in a senior role in the second Bush administration, writing in the memoir that he imagined himself as “the equivalent of Michael J. Fox’s character in The American President – the young, passionate idealist urging the president, in the heat of battle, to do the right thing.”</p> <p>He described being devastated when that did not come to pass. In the book, he blamed it on being "far too cocky" on the campaign, and burning "a fair number of bridges" by interjecting his opinions — to the chagrin of campaign elders.</p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;">“As a result, the first year of the Bush administration was one of the hardest of my life,” he added. “But it also turned out to be one of the most important because I couldn’t blame anyone else for my situation – if I wanted things to change I had to look inside myself.” </span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 1.35;">In many ways, Cruz </span>finds himself<span style="line-height: 1.35;"> in a similarly rocky </span>situation<span style="line-height: 1.35;"> in the </span>U.S. <span style="line-height: 1.35;">Senate. </span>At least 16 times in his book’s first 19 pages, he writes of his party’s Senate leadership in less than flattering terms.</p> <p>Among their perceived transgressions: surrendering to the Democrats, risk aversion, “chicanery” and caving in to President Obama.</p> <p>This isn't just in Cruz's book; in recent weeks, he's added "Washington cartel" terminology to his campaign messaging, and appears to be <span style="line-height: 1.35;">running as much against his own party as the Democrats. </span></p> <p>In the Monday interview, Cruz described himself more as the recipient of fire from Senate leaders than as the one lobbing the bombs. <span style="line-height: 1.35;">But </span>his<span style="line-height: 1.35;"> criticism of “GOP leadership” hits close to home. 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