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Madison -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker piled up praise on Ted Cruz in an article on the Texas senator in Time.

The magazine named Cruz, the GOP presidential alternative to billionaire Donald Trump, to its 100 most influential people list. Walker wrote the piece in the magazine, taking a different tack on the senator than he did during Walker's own short run for president.

"Ted Cruz is unique in politics today as he is actually doing the things in office that he said he would do. You see, he’d rather be respected by the voters across this country for getting things done than be loved by the politicians in Washington for playing the go-along-to-get-along game," Walker wrote in the article.

During his own campaign, Walker talked about himself in similar ways. But he sought to distinguish his own record as a conservative who'd won at the ballot box and in big policy fights, a dig at Cruz's lonelier battles in the U.S. Senate.