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Here is the cleaned up, spell checked, and typo corrected letter I just sent to Senator Ted Cruz. I will also post it on my site and Facebook. If the Mods can somehow get the fixed text (in italics below) into the original post...that would be nice too.

As a financial contributor of his through the primaries, I have an email address that is most likely to get to some of his inside people.

Senator Cruz, April 20, 2016

I wanted to write this letter to you in the hopes that you will get it and get the chance to read it. I leave that in God’s hands, but I will also post it on a few Conservative sites and Facebook.

I have been, and am, a supporter and admirer of yours.

You have been a staunch supporter of the constitution, conservative values, and stood (many times alone) against a GOP Establishment that has not kept faith with the conservative base of the party who elected them.

I have supported you from afar as you won offices in Texas, my native home state, including your stunning victory for the US Senate. I have supported you through these Presidential primaries and worked in my own state to help you win Idaho. I have sent money into your campaign.

Now we have reached a stage where things are coming into focus.

I know, as an individual with the will and the stamina and dedication to run for President that you are absolutely convinced of your need to win this race. What I am about to say, will not be easy to say or to read.

However, reality is now showing that mathematically that victory is out of reach through the primaries before the convention.

I know you can, and that you seem willing to try and do all in your power to take the fight to the convention floor and somehow stop Donald Trump from getting the delegates he needs so you can fight him on the convention floor and win the nomination.

As a devout Christian, as an American who loves this nation and the Constitution, I urge you not to do this.

Here is why.

I believe the single worst thing that we could do, that would almost assuredly lead to a Hillary Clinton victory, is to have an ugly convention fight that ends up taking the nomination away from a man who will have earned by far the largest share of the vote, and who will have also probably come within a hair's breadth of winning the necessary delegates. Quite frankly, after his New York victory and depending on what happens on April 26th, I believe it very possible, perhaps even likely, that he will get to the delegates necessary before the convention in any case.

I know the GOPe and many who have had the vilest things to say about you are now hoping to use you to stop Donald Trump. Their support for you is feigned and they will throw you to the curb the instant they can in order to retain their own power...and, in my own estimation, they do not care if it means Hillary Clinton being elected to do so.

I have studied your positions and your speeches and I agree with them and support them whole heartedly. But I have also studied the positions that Trump has now put out and the details. They are very similar to your own senator. I guess the big question is whether we believe Donald Trump would actually follow through and implement them.

I believe that if he has the right people around him, helping him, showing him how...that he will.

Senator Cruz, a raucous, ugly fight at the convention will almost ensure that one or the other large segment of the people who voted in the GOP primaries will be very angry and we will lose many of their votes in the general, or worse, they will try a 3rd party run.

Either of those scenarios hands the election to Hillary Clinton or the DNC.

As a nation we absolutely CANNOT afford a 3rd Obama term or worse. The impact to the Supreme Court, to foreign policy, to our finances, to a continued erosion of moral values, and almost every other critical national interest would all be catastrophic. Stopping that HAs to be the 1st order of business.

You are in a unique position (and God has placed you there) to be able to stop this. I know it is not the way you or I envisioned you being able to do it. But it is the truth nonetheless.

I plead with you Senator Cruz, be the voice of reason. Be the uniter. Do it soon where it can have the most effect and impact.

Should Trump do well on April 26th and then in Indiana, I urge you to meet with Mr. Trump and be willing to set aside pride, war hatchets, and whatever is necessary to come to an accommodation between the two of you that unites the party behind what will be his candidacy.

I know this is a hard thing to consider...but in the interest of this nation I ask that you prayerfully consider it and stand up and unite the party so we can win in November.

And then work with Mr. Trump to implement all of those good things that both of your candidacies represent, and then trust in God to turn the tide.

I know He will...I know that if the policies set forth are implemented, He will help us turn this nation around, and there is the very strong possibility that we will have 16 years of strong American leadership to do so. You would, and need to figure into those 16 years senator Cruz. I believe this is the strongest path for you to do so.

Sincerely, and as a fellow American and brother in Christ,

Jeff Head
Idaho, USA