The Cruz campaign made a few mistakes.
1) Canadian birth topic should have been raised by Cruz himself early. He could have easily neutralized it and made it a non-issue. But he let others bring it up and put him on the defensive.
2) He did not have a sound-byte theme. It took a minimum of 3 sentences to explain his position on anything. Immigration? Trump could say: The wall. the Cruz response was longer.
3) His campaign boasted a ground game. But outside of IA that was the most damaging lie of the Cruz campaign. He had 500,000 small donors and another 1,000,000 supporters who couldn’t afford to donate. His campaign could have turned us into his ground game. That is 300 volunteers per Congressional district (on average). Of course some districts had 2,000 volunteers on his email list and other congressional districts had under 50.
If Cruz had activated his ground game in the SEC when he announced he would have won the SEC ... and the nomination.
But he had no ground game in GA. I’ve now talked to so many of his supporters in GA who aggressively tried to find it and could not.
Cruz is a comprehensive fake. An ineligible candidate, probably not even a U.S. citizen, without the ground game that was supposed to carry him to victory, who started lying about his main opponent’s PUBLIC POSITIONS.
How did Cruz think he could get away with lying about WHAT TRUMP WAS SAYING?