His campaign is Most Sincerely Dead, sir.
Not just a flesh wound.
An Ex-Norwegian Blue Campaign!
with apologies to Charles Dickens:
The Cruz campaign was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the voters, the delegates, the pollsters, and the chief mourner. Trump signed it: and Trump’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Lyin Ted’s campaign was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Cruz’s presidential campaign was as dead as a door-nail.