On a conference call with the campaign’s National Prayer Team, Heidi Cruz portrayed Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, which ended a week ago, as one part of a broader journey similar to the abolition of slavery. Whether he does or not, Cruz is adamant that he won’t be running on a third-party bid.
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“We’ll accomplish that but it’ll take more time”, he said.
“My assumption is that will not happen”, he said.
Trump is the presumptive nominee and is on a path to clinch the 1,237 delegates needed to earn it on the first ballot, but holding on to his delegates could help Cruz exercise at least some control over convention rules and procedures. The reason we suspended the race last week is with Indiana’s loss, I didn’t see a viable path to victory.
Earlier on Tuesday, Cruz welcomed the idea of tossing his hat back into the ring in a lighthearted exchange with a staunch supporter, conservative radio host Glenn Beck.
Cruz suspended his campaign after a series of bruising primary losses, ending in Indiana.
He says if fighting for the American people makes him an outsider back in the Senate, he’ll continue to be just that.
“This is a choice every voter is going to have to make…” “The Republican convention is not for another 2½ months, and the election is not for another six months”.
“I think if Ted has a future in Republican politics in this country, I think he’ll want to preserve that”, Trump adviser Sam Clovis said on CNN.
Looking forward, Cruz said, “We need to watch and see what the candidates say and do”.
“If circumstances change, we’ll always address changed circumstances”, Cruz told reporters.
The senator may be hoping to put his conservative imprint on the party’s July 18-21 national convention in Cleveland.
That comparison drew some derisive comment.
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Cruz campaigned for president as a Washington outsider. “In just a few sentences, Heidi Cruz shows us exactly how tone deaf the Republican Party is to the history and lives of the new American majority”.
