Ted Cruz Throws Support to Donald Trump’s Campaign at Last

However, Cruz’s explanation hasn’t stopped speculation about the possibility that other reasons may have contributed to the Texas senator jumping – however reluctantly – on the Trump Train.

The Cruz statement comes as Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton remain locked in a tight race, both struggling to unite their parties as their first debate looms Monday and early voting is underway in some states.

The debate over whether to endorse Trump has splintered the Cruz inner circle.

“I have had many, many disagreements with Donald Trump. I don’t think it is productive for me to criticize the Republican nominee today”.

Cruz’s show of support came days after Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus suggested he may block Republicans who don’t back Trump from running for the party’s nomination again.

Trump’s naming of Cruz ally, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, Cruz’s closest friend in the Senate, to the list.

Ted Cruz appears uncomfortable defending the man he says he’ll vote for in November, Donald Trump. I added that his base felt Cruz had abandoned the high principles he had us all believe in.

“Our country is in a crisis, Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans, and Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way”, wrote Ted Cruz in the published Facebook Post. Smith asked at one point. So I think Cruz was always caught between a rock and hard place and he, for his future, for him to have a future in the Senate or to run for the White House between he had to get on board.

However, that argument was a tough sell for numerous voters who backed his presidential bid, with a few saying his endorsement of Trump vindicated Cruz’s sharpest critics-several of whom accused him of opportunism.

Cruz offered little defense of Trump’s most outrageous positions and comments, including his proposed ban on Muslim immigrants.

He also might be seeking to placate those he angered when he encouraged Republicans to “vote your conscience” instead of endorsing Mr Trump outright at the party’s national convention. Many of Cruz’s more prominent supporters, however, were not as willing to allow bygones to be bygones.

But is seems that Ted Cruz has let the past in the past and is ready to begin a friendly political campaign next to Donald Trump by announcing his support for the Republican candidate and sharing the hashtag #NeverHillary.

None are more important than the Mercer family, which backed a pro-Cruz political group this spring before becoming major Trump backers. It also followed news of Heidi Cruz, his wife, rejoining Goldman Sachs in the Houston office.

“My faith teaches me to forgive, with or without an apology”, Cruz said, telling the crowd that his family made a decision to not hold a grudge against Trump.