Cruz said he made the decision because he wants to keep his word to support the Republican nominee – and he finds Hillary Clinton “wholly unacceptable”.
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Republican senator Ted Cruz has finally backed Donald Trump for U.S. president. But Cruz left the stage to boos after his prime-time GOP national convention speech in July in which he eschewed the orthodoxy of endorsing Trump and instead urged Republicans to vote their consciences in November. “Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election”, Cruz posted on Facebook.
He also doubted the fitness of Clinton for the presidency while highlighting that her policies would harm millions of Americans.
An endorsement of Trump would stand in stark contrast to Cruz’s political behavior since Trump clinched the Republican nomination in May.
Trump has moved closer to Cruz in recent weeks, hiring key allies such as Kellyanne Conway as his campaign manager, and Jason Miller as a spokesman.
Ted Cruz’s conscience told him to support a man who attacked his wife and accused his father of being involved in the JFK assassination.
Lee has yet to publicly endorse Trump’s campaign.
Cruz, a senator from Texas who is a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, was one of Trump’s last challengers for the Republican presidential nomination to drop out of the race.
Trump, who said in July that he would not accept a Cruz endorsement, accepted Cruz’s endorsement in a statement on his website on Friday. “I look forward to working with him for many years to come in order to make America great again”, he said.
Atlanta-based radio talk show host Erick Erickson said a Cruz endorsement at this point “plays to the caricature that he is self-interested, not really principled”. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. That was the first sign that Cruz might think anything of Trump except that he’s a “pathological liar”, “utterly amoral”, “serial philanderer” who is “terrified by strong women”.
During the Republican primary fight, few rivalries were as personal and acidic as that between Trump and Cruz.
“Ted Cruz was with Trump when he could’ve beaten him and against him when he couldn’t”, Ziegler tweeted.
The Texas senator is expected to voice some type of support for Trump either Friday or Saturday, the people said.
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Trump himself even praised the idea of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry running against Cruz in 2018.
