While one could hope for Trump to be a kinder gentler kind of guy...well Bush and Romney both tried this and where did it get them? Further Cruz is not exactly a nice guy when it comes to competition, for a guy who says he is guided by principle, it is difficult to find more than 1 instance when his principle prevented him from doing something favorable to his own goals. honest observes have to admit Cruz is not all that different than trump when it comes to attacking.
As to Trumps criticism of the other candidates:
The end of the Cruz/Trump bormance was when Trump questioned Cruz’s NBC status. That followed the revelation that Cruz was bad talking trump in private to finance folks. This board went wild with Cruz folks saying how dare he question Cruz. If Trump folks were a bit hot under the collar, so were Cruz folks. Neither side was without sin.
It just got wilder after that with both sides getting involved in the muddy waters. Things reached a low with both sides of the spouse ads/twitters and subsequent affair allegations.
As of late, Cruz has been more of a dirt slinger than Trump. Sorry that is the truth. Last night he was trying to link Trump to Mike Tyson and saying that Tyson endorsing Trump was terrible and indicated how low Trump was, associating with a man who was convicted and did 3 years for a rape... But that occurred in 1991 and the endorsement came out of nowhere. Cruz and his minions are the ones attacking all the time, as of late Trump has shown a bit more restraint then the other side.
Fact is with the recent polls Cruz stands to get around 660 delegates, trump around 1330. That is two delegates for every one of Cruz’s, while I can respect Cruz for fighting until they are 200 Meters from his bunker, what it says about Cruz’s character is not good. The more folks look at Cruz the less they like him, except for a 20 to 30 % margin of folks that are diehard supporters.
I am sorry to see anyone depart this battle, and would hope that folks would see that the voters have spoken. If you cannot vote for Trump, well one must vote their conscience. But the reality is Cruz could have been the VP had he not been on a wild and not exactly realistic bid to take it all. If trump fails because the Cruz supporters refuse to vote for him, well that is life and we will all have to deal with it then.
In any case best wishes.
Don't count this idea out yet. Trump can knock someone down then pick him up and be friends. He doesn't take it all personal and puts business first.