Point 5 is HUGE, and the main reason Trump is my top pick. I’m closer to Cruz ideologically, but a sad reality is that we’ve gone so far away from what the founders believed to be unquestioned (people not paying taxes shouldn’t vote, there were not career politicians, etc...) the sad fact is the constitution allows for obstructionism with relatively low numbers. The founders also never counted on a situation where 4 Supreme Court justices would hate the ideology behind the country’s founding.
So the downside of Cruz is that he won’t do anything that he can’t do constitutionally. And sadly, the coalition of socialists and minorities plus gerrymandering will guarantee the democrats 45 senators minimum. Enough to block anything in the senate. we can’t continue to allow an invasion simply because a minority is sympathetic to the invaders. Cruz would never use eminent domain and executive orders to build a wall. Trump would.
His seeking the office of President disproves that statement.