>>So why did Cruz feel the need to comment? Like people care what he thinks?
I care what he thinks. I only supported him for about the first 2 weeks after he announced his candidacy at Liberty University, but he is an important figure in the NeverTrump movement and his enthusiastic support takes some of the wind out of their sails.
Cruz was never #NeverTrump. He was simply an undecided voter, other than vowing never to vote for Hillary. The #NeverTrump movement really seems to be made up of the Romney types, the RINOs who were backing Jeb or someone else, but definitely weren’t backing Cruz.