Five minutes after Teddy steals the nomination, the Washington Post will start reporting his lunatic fringe friends...like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1IXDrXgV0
In the astronomically remote chance that Ted Cruz would be the Republican Party nominee, the socialist democrats will run this as a political ad right up to election day. It's not just that the less than 1.5% of the population who are homosexual will vote against Cruz, but so will tens of millions of voters who, though they at best tolerate the "homosexual lifestyle" who don't want them killed. They certainly won't vote for a presidential candidate who associates with a person who passionately preaches such an abhorrent idea.