As the HBO show, Veep launches its final season, viewers were treated to a new nugget last night on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Timothy Simons said some traits of his character, Jonah Ryan are straight out of this former presidential candidate’s playbook:

Speaking of charmless and graceless and just universally disliked. I based a lot of it on Ted Cruz…  Was is Lindsey Graham who had, like, a great bit about Ted Cruz? I think — I’m paraphrasing but if you were to shoot him on the floor of the senate, you could not find a witness. And I feel like Jonah operates in that space. But begrudgingly, you have to admit that Ted Cruz has some — he has fallen ass-backwards into some sort of power and until he’s out everybody just has to deal with him. And that very much is Jonah’s vibe. 

Watch what Simons said above.