Cruz Finally Supports Trump
Senator Ted Cruz said on Friday that he would vote for Donald J. Trump for president, two months after Mr. Cruz pointedly declined to endorse his former rival in a speech at the Republican National Convention.
“After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump,” Mr. Cruz wrote in a statement on Facebook.
Do you think Cruz’s supporters will remember this?
As news of Mr. Cruz’s plans surfaced, first on Politico, some Cruz allies wasted no time registering their displeasure.
“I’m just trying to get this Cruz sticker off my car,” Rick Tyler, the senator’s campaign spokesman, said shortly after the endorsement was announced. “I don’t want anybody to get the wrong idea and think I’m a Trump supporter.”
Steve Deace, a prominent Iowa conservative radio host who had supported Mr. Cruz, called the senator’s decision “the worst political miscalculation of my lifetime.”
Voters’ responses were often no kinder.
“I am ashamed to have supported you,” one man wrote.
“Conservatism is dead,” said another.
While Mr. Cruz is widely expected to pursue the presidency again, he faces a 2018 Senate re-election campaign first.
I never thought I’d say this, but: I’m disappointed in Cruz. He’s a lying, vicious little shit-weasel, but I thought we could rely on him to hold a grudge. Maybe even cause some schisms in the GOP. But no, this is the one time in his life Cruz decided not to be a miserable prick to someone, and that someone is the guy who spat on Cruz’s wife and father.