Cruzs’ plan and it was a reasonable plan, was to wait for Trump to implode and then pick up the pieces. Good plan, only one problem, Trump never imploded. Everyone and I mean everyone underestimated Trump smarts. Trump is a genius and he knows how to play the media and how to play politics. He knows how to read the mood of the countrys’ working/middle classes. He will get things done in DC. No one will ever underestimate Donald Trump again.
The plan was basic and solid.
The problem was that it was basic. Any political novice could see it coming from a mile away.
The Cruz people overestimated their own “brilliance”, and took the Trump that they see in front of cameras at face value, assuming that he is a lightweight, forgetting that this man had honed his technique for 40 years!
Trump knew what was up, and sprung before he could be jumped.
Cruz is good at a lot of things, but the art of political war is not one of them.