TX-SEN: Record-setting astronaut Scott Kelly could take on Ted Cruz
As Democrats await a candidate to taken on Ted Cruz in 2024, Inside Elections' Erin Covey says one possibility mentioned by Texas Democrats is retired astronaut Scott Kelly, the identical twin brother of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly—and the notion doesn't seem impossible.
Two days after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Scott Kelly condemned the attacks in a pair of tweets, noting that his brother's life had been threatened that day and that his sister-in-law, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, had survived a horrific assassination attempt exactly 10 years earlier. In response, a Twitter used named Kyle Hause asked Kelly if he'd run against Cruz; Kelly responded with a tantalizing quote-tweet saying, "Hmm…maybe."
Kelly, who lives in Houston (the home of NASA's Johnson Space Center) hasn't said anything further since, but he'd bring a remarkable profile to the race. He famously smashed the previous record for the longest trip in space by an American when he spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station (though Mark Vande Hei eclipsed that mark last year) and attracted intense interest due to NASA's plans to study the effects of long-term spaceflight by comparing his DNA to his brother's. Kelly chronicled his journey in the book "Endurance," which, incidentally, is a really good read.
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"Cancun Cruz is going to "LOSE" - I could see repeating that like a mantra! 
don a gorilla suit in space:
Link to tweet
Mark sent him the suit, but it was Scott doing the flying gorilla
