GOP establishment to Ted Cruz: Want our help? Better apologize

Last year, Cruz stood on the Senate floor and accused McConnell, the chamber's top Republican, of telling a “flat-out lie” on negotiations around a trade bill.

After Cruz won the primary in his home state of Texas earlier this month, John Cornyn— McConnell’s chief deputy and Cruz’s fellow Texas senator — said he told Cruz to make amends with his colleagues over the remarks.

"I actually made that suggestion to him when I talked to him last,” Cornyn told CNN.

Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana said,"If he's asking someone for an endorsement from theUnited States Senate, I think he needs to go to that individual and explain what has changed since we were thrown under the bus.”

And Sen. John Thune, the Senate’s third-ranking Republican, told CNN that if Cruz “thinks he is going to be the guy or wants to be the guy” then it would help for him to “mend some of those fences that he tore down when he was here.”

It remains unclear, however, how much of an appetite Cruz has for apologies.