Cruz to vote for Trump, whom he once called ‘utterly amoral’

Ted Cruz may have finally endorsed Donald Trump last week, but the Tea Party senator from Texas apparently still has some doubts about whether the GOP nominee is fit to be president.

For Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), the decision to endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump wasn’t an easy one. They even publicly castigated Cruz after he declined to endorse his former rival at the Republican convention.

During a May press conference, Cruz’s attacks against Trump hit a new level when he called Trump a “pathological liar,” “utterly amoral”, “a narcissist at a level I don’t this country’s ever seen” and “a serial philanderer”.

Cruz had told reporters at the time he was “not in the habit” of backing people who insult his wife or his family.

Cruz wasn’t the only flip-flopper – he said Trump thanked him on the phone, despite his earlier assertion he wouldn’t accept a Cruz endorsement.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign sent Warren to New Hampshire for the day to fire up Democrats in the battleground state.

That could pose a problem for Cruz, who will be up for re-election in 2018.

In his announcement, Cruz cited two reasons for deciding to support his former nemesis: His promise at the convention to support the party’s candidate, and a victory by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton being “wholly unacceptable”. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way. Gallup tracking surveys found that Cruz’s net favorable rating among Republicans fell by a jarring 35 percentage points in the weeks after the convention, dipping into negative territory.

Cruz said a key reason for changing his mind was Trump’s naming of a top Cruz ally, Utah Sen.

The primary campaign between Cruz and Trump was extremely hostile with Trump often referring to Cruz as “Lyin’ Ted”. Many of Cruz’s more prominent supporters, however, were not as willing to allow bygones to be bygones.

Cruz’s decision might lessen his luster for some of his most faithful admirers, who respected his refusal to bend to the demand that he endorse a candidate for president whom Cruz had made clear he found to be philosophically undependable and personally repugnant.

Lee responded with a statement: “The Supreme Court is very important and I appreciate being considered”.

“Cruz’s conscience told him he must vote for a man who mocked the looks of his wife and falsely connected his father to the JFK assassin?” asked Stephen F. Hayes, a Weekly Standard columnist. Mike Lee, in his updated list of potential Supreme Court picks announced Friday helped ease tensions between the two camps. “All the clips of Cruz angrily attacking Trump, and vice versa, are playing”. I’ve discussed it with both Heidi (Cruz) and my dad.

Cruz offered little defense of Trump’s past comments on Muslim-Americans. He later accused the media of stealing the nomination for Trump – arguing that “a handful of network executives” were guilty of “manipulating and trying to deceive the voters” in an effort to give him the GOP nod.