Texas Democrat Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzCruz blocks amended resolution honoring Ginsburg over language about her dying wish Trump argues full Supreme Court needed to settle potential election disputes Press: Notorious RBG vs Notorious GOP MORE ran into each other at an airport in Houston, Texas, where they reportedly cordially greeted each other days after a contentious midterm Senate race.

Tiffany Easter, a Texas A&M student in the Bush School of Government and Public Service, captured photos of the two former rivals posing with a group of people at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Tuesday.

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Easter wrote on Facebook that O’Rourke noticed Cruz waiting for the same flight and walked over to congratulate him on his re-election campaign.

“It was the first time they had seen each other since the election and the entire conversation was both of them talking about how they could move forward together,” Easter wrote. “The Texas Senate race was one of the most contested and most watched in the nation. Today we literally watched them come together. This is America.”

@BetoORourke & @tedcruz, thank you for showing us the best of America today @ IAH. Thanks for the conversion, courage, humility, and inspiration. Post-election doesn’t mean the conversation and civic engagement stops—in fact, it means the opposite. Thanks for your public service! pic.twitter.com/uVepvKQrW8 — Tiffany Easter (@TiffanyEaster) November 13, 2018

Easter’s posts about her experience with the two politicians on social media have since gone viral.

The college student told The Hill that the more she reflects on the attention the story has gotten, the more “it confirms that America is craving encounters like this. A simple handshake and conversation can go a long way.”

“America needs good stories like this to show we’re only divided if we choose to be and I hope people take this example, as simple as it is, and pass it forward,” she added.