Texas Senator Ted Cruz appeared on the latest Season 13 episode of Poker After Dark, and like anything related to politics, it sparked a heated debate on both sides of the aisle.
Cruz, a Republican and 2016 presidential candidate who lost his party's nomination to Donald Trump, represents the Lone Star State where a recent mass shooting at an elementary school took place. Nineteen children and two adults were killed in the incident. So, the optics when he shared a clip on Twitter from the Poker After Dark session days after the shooting weren't great, but the show was actually filmed months prior.