Ted Cruz didn't whack around his opponents at a packed rally this morning in Ames, Iowa and instead used his top talkers, Glenn Beck and his wife Heidi, to show the human, earnest side of the Texas senator.

Beck, the former Fox News personality, touted how Cruz 'has done everything that he said he would do' while serving in Washington.

'If you turn out to be a weasel, I'm going to expose you.,' Beck said he's told Republicans, including Cruz, heading to Capitol Hill. 'Ted has not done that,' Beck added.

Heidi Cruz asked the Iowans in attendance, who will caucus Monday in the first contest of the presidential race, to please 'fall in love with Ted Cruz just like I did.'

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Cruz's Crew: Radio host Glenn Beck (left) and wife Heidi Cruz (right) were two parts of a spirited opening act for Sen. Ted Cruz in Ames, Iowa, this morning with just two days before the caucuses

Ted Cruz's surrogates are trying to combat Donald Trump's claims that the Texas senator is a 'nasty' guy and is despised by his colleagues in Washington

Heidi Cruz, an accomplished executive who has taken leave from Goldman Sachs to assist the campaign, said she went from her conservative Christian family in California to Texas to work on former President George W. Bush's campaign – and that's where she met Ted.

'I met Ted Cruz and I voted for him within the first five minutes,' she gushed.

She talked about their home life and their two girls, Catherine and Caroline, who both attended today's rally.

'Each of our kids reflects the parents to a certain degree and Caroline is a lot like her dad,' Heidi Cruz said.

She told a story about Ted and Caroline doing math homework together in which he was supposed to read her the instructions and she was to complete the problems.

'Caroline said, "You know dad, thank you, that's very interesting, but I disagree with that advice. I think we should do the problem this way,"' Heidi Cruz said, quoting the 7-year-old. 'And she did it and it turned out just fine.'

There was a greater parallel to her story.

When it was Ted Cruz's turn to talk he also defended his reputation in Washington, suggesting it was a good thing he rattled Washington elites. ''I kind of thought that was the whole point of the campaign,' he said

Heidi Cruz, being squeezed by hubby Ted Cruz, is telling stories voters about her husband at home - a doting husband and father who takes her out to late dinners and helps the kids with homework

'You have a senator who went to Washington and looked at the party leadership and did not do exactly what he was told,' Heidi Cruz said. 'He did what you told him to do, not what the Republican party told him to do,' she told supporters.

She also ticked off a number of nice-guy things her husband had done: taken her out to a late dinner on her birthday – and he arrived first – 'as most of us wives can probably guess,' she laughed.

He held a friend's hand through surgery for six hours, she said, and he didn't forget last Valentine's Day, even while being in the midst of planning his presidential campaign.

'Ted never forgets to remind the women in his family how special we are,' Heidi Cruz said. 'He's also the person who's going to be there when you need him.'

Without saying Donald Trump's name outright, Heidi Cruz's stories about her husband at home were one way the campaign tried pushing back today on The Donald's claims that Cruz is a 'nasty' guy and that's why he doesn't have any friends in Washington.

Instead of being a noxious human being, both Mrs. Cruz and Beck suggested that Cruz wasn't sitting at the cool kids' table in D.C. because he was doing what voters asked.

'And the reason 27 million Texans are so happy with their junior senator from Texas is because, to the chagrin of many in Washington, our junior senator Ted Cruz has done exactly what he said he would do,' Heidi Cruz said, using nearly identical language to Beck on that point.

When it was the Texas senator's turn to sell himself, he repeated many Ted Cruz classics.

He'd nuke the Iranian nuclear deal and move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. He'd 'padlock' the IRS and send its agents to the U.S.-Mexican border instead.

'You're swimming across the Rio Grande and the first thing you see is 90,000 IRS agents – you'd turn around and go home too,' he said.

He suggested to voters if they wanted someone to go to Washington and 'just kind of fiddle around the edges – then I ain't your guy,' he said, promising wide-scale change.

And then he addressed that same problem that his surrogates were sent in to fix – that he's despised by the 'Washington elite.'