article_snippet.sent: Curiously absent from the final vote was Texas Senator Ted Cruz - a key opponent of Loretta Lynch's nomination.
article_snippet.sent: Texas Senator Ted Cruz - a key opponent of Lynch's nomination was the only member of The U.S. Senate who did not cast a vote.
article_snippet.sent: The White House said The White House did not know when exactly Loretta Lynch would be sworn in but The White House wasn't likely to be today.
article_snippet.sent: Florida's Marco Rubio did not vote in Florida's Marco Rubio favor.
article_snippet.sent: Cruz tried to block Loretta Lynch from clearing a procedural hurdle earlier in the day, giving an impassioned speech on the chamber floor urging Loretta Lynch colleagues to oppose Florida's Marco Rubio nomination, but was missing when the final tally was taken. '
article_snippet.sent: The Republican majority, if The Republican majority so chose, could defeat her nomination,' the 2016 Oval Office candidate said said during the debate on whether to take a formal vote on her nomination. '
article_snippet.sent: It was not immediately clear why the senator - who had not been shy about Loretta Lynch intentions to vote against Loretta Lynch - was absent from the chamber floor during the formal vote and a spokeswoman for Loretta Lynch 2016 campaign simply told Daily Mail Online that Loretta Lynch had a prior commitment in Texas.
article_snippet.sent: Like a representative from Loretta Lynch Senate office noted on Twitter, the spokeswoman, Catherine Frazier, said Loretta Lynch voted no on cloture, and that's the only one 'that mattered.'
article_snippet.sent: Sen. Cruz was not present for today's final vote on Lynch.
article_snippet.sent: Sen. Cruz was the only member of the Senate who was absent. 
article_snippet.sent: The voting margin reflected many Republicans' disapproval of .