Ted Cruz's Donors Are Satisfied Customers

The Republican brand took a beating during the government shutdown. But there’s one GOP lawmaker who remains in the good graces of his most loyal supporters: Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas who helped mastermind the failed strategy to defund Obamacare.

In Texas, Cruz’s donors say they’re pleased with their investment in the senator who made killing the health-care law an integral piece of his 2012 campaign and who on Oct. 16 panned the budget and debt-ceiling deal because it didn’t gut the law. “He’s doing what he said he would do, and he’s not trying to make friends with Democrats or Republicans,” says donor Dougal Cameron, who owns Cameron Management, a real estate development firm in Houston. “He’s trying to represent the people who sent him up there.”