When he got stomped in Florida, he should have left the race. When the Democrats in Wisconsin had to hand him the "victory" last week, Cruz should have left the race.
We needed to close ranks around the leader WEEKS ago.
This is only helping the Democrats. But apparently Cruz doesn't care about that - or the fact that he's giving the Democrats an opening to appoint a bunch of Supreme Counrt justices, if they come back from their own imploding primary season, and win in November.
He won't leave.
The next two weeks will feature a set of primaries in several states, including some like New York and Pennsylvania which are rather sizeable. Unless something absolutely paradigm-shifting takes place during that time, Donald Trump is going to crush Ted Cruz in each and every one of these primaries. At that point, it will become completely mathematically impossible for Cruz to possibly get to the 1,237 delegates needed for an outright first round victory.
Cruz knows this.
That's why he and his worshipers supporters are hanging onto the vain hope that all these delegates Ted is trying to suborn to support him in the second round will actually do so, instead of jumping ship to some Party-approved "compromise candidate" like Jeb or Paul Ryan or Rubio who the GOP-E has *really* wanted all along.
Trump knows its 1,237 or bust. Cruz should know the same thing, but trusts in the power of his lawyerin' too much to see the reality he faces.
Failure comes not from falling but from not getting up.
The early states the vote was divided sixteen ways from Sunday. Trump has his tRump rangers but he has not yet won.
Actual polling:
Trump v Clinton (Clinton + 10.4)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html#!
Cruz v Clinton (Clinton + 2.8)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html