According to the Washington Examiner, Ted Cruz held a closed-door lunch meeting on Wednesday during which he claimed that his plan to defund Obamacare through a government shutdown had placed the GOP in a politically advantageous position.

Citing the results of a poll he paid for himself, Cruz argued that Republicans were in better shape, politically, than they were in 1995, the last time the government shut down. Cruz's case rested on the fact that respondents to his poll overwhelmingly identified disagreement over Obamacare — and not government spending — as the reason for the shutdown. How, exactly, this proves Republicans are winning the shutdown fight is a question the report leaves unanswered.

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