Cruz lacked the cajones to say it to Trump's face.
or his handlers told him that the focus group message testing
did not favor going after Trump on this. Cruz is running the same kind of campaign Hillary is, using the same kind of political operatives that conventional campaigns for McCain, Romney, and Obama used.
Trump is Trump! Unscripted, bold, politically-incorrect, and a truth-teller.
Your choice.
“So why didn’t Cruz just restate his contention that Trump doesn’t have the temperament and judgment to have his finger on the button or that he would nuke Denmark?”
Because everyone knew he said it, and he was leaving it with the voters. Because Trump’s personality is pretty obvious.
“Cruz lacked the cajones to say it to Trump’s face.”
No, he just knew it wouldn’t be well received in that context. Kind of like Trump calling Carly “pretty” to her face after attacking her looks and mocking her.
Yeah, like he lacked the cajones to call McConnell a liar to his face.
He's just terrified of Trump. Riiiiight.