Cruz certainly has a much bigger chance in 2024 than atlas users want to think. He just defeated a man who had nearly twice as much campaign money than he did. He finished second place in the 2016 primaries with almost the same amount of votes as Romney received in the 2012 republican primaries. He received more votes than both Kasich and Rubio combined. He was the most competitive runner up since Reagan and Ford in 1976. He will be in the national spot light in 2020 - 2024 because he will be an incumbent politican at the time. I think many people on the left and on rino republican right are trying desperately to suppress Ted Cruz and constantly try to reiterate the idea that Ted Cruz has no chance of winning any national election in the future because he did not come in first in 2016 because they really are afraid of Ted Cruz and the possibility of having to face him in a general election.
He may have had twice the campaign cash but Abbot's chest cancelled that out with the texas gop's much better infrastructure.