Dewhurst Again Cites Chinese Firm in Targeting Cruz

After a rocky appearance at the Republican state convention this weekend, David Dewhurst came out swinging against Ted Cruz, suggesting Monday that Cruz doesn’t have the character to become a U.S. senator.

Once again, it was Cruz’s involvement in a patent case — pitting a Chinese company against a U.S. inventor — that drove Dewhurst to unload on his opponent. Dewhurst dipped into his vast personal fortune to finance TV attack ads on the topic before the May 29 primary, but the lieutenant governor still wound up in a runoff with the former Texas solicitor general.

Now Dewhurst ...

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