Republican U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks during a campaign event at Central Baptist Church in Kannapolis, North Carolina, March 8, 2016.
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“We launched this campaign intending to win”.
“The reason we suspended the race last week is after Indiana’s loss, I didn’t see a viable path to victory”, he continued. “If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly”. It was Beck’s co-host, Pat Gray, who brought up the seemingly outlandish idea that Cruz might win the Cornhusker State; Cruz was merely responding to a hypothetical.
“I encourage all delegates who supported my campaign – and who support a constitutional conservative agenda that will grow jobs, protect our freedoms, and ensure our security – to actively participate in shaping the Party platform and rules in a manner that will ensure our cause is advanced”, he wrote in the signed letter to Arnold.
Many Republicans, including a number of prominent donors, have taken the message to heart and are throwing their backing behind Trump.
The Texas senator is apparently willing.
But Cruz could not reach him on the phone, and others reported back to the Cruz campaign that Rubio did not seem interested in having a discussion about this at all.
What the hell is Ted Cruz doing, asked the voices in Ted Cruz’s head. John McCain and Jon Huntsman, said Kasich had a credible path to the nomination, even with just one victory – in his own state.
Rubio, who said on Monday that he has no interest in being Trump’s running mate, said Cruz does not face the voters until 2018.
Senator Ted Cruz, and his wife Heidi Cruz, in Indianapolis earlier this month.
“What the Cruz camp never understood is that our voters were never going to go with Cruz”, Weaver told Cleveland.com. “I think we need to watch and see what the candidates say and do”.
Cruz, chatting with former campaign surrogate Glenn Beck on Beck’s radio show, did not back presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. At the start of the campaign, he had pledged to support the party’s presidential nominee.
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Cruz has alienated several of his Republican colleagues during his time in the Senate, helping engineer a 16-day partial government shutdown in 2013 and calling Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the Senate floor.
