Since 2007 Trump has given money to two Democrats.
Look this country is in deep trouble. Ted refused to make immigration his issue. Why is that? Even though it is really the number one issue facing this nation. Not that immigrants are bad, but uncontrolled immigration is a big problem. Especially when you and I are footing the bill so the politicians can court the new votes to their party, while ignoring our concerns.
Is Ted really who he has so carefully crafted himself to be? If so, explain away his hiring of a Bush brother to his campaign. Explain away his wife being a higher up within Goldman Sachs. Explain away her involvement with the CFR and her role in Building a North America. Another European Union type of arrangement where our borders effectively are erased. Our government becomes secondary to a higher government, and quite possible our money becomes one money. Explain away his willingness to throw us into a brokered convention where an insider just might come out as the nominee.
The smear campaigns are just noise. The long term damage done by the New Deal was not in any of the programs implemented by FDR, but in the precedent of the Substantial Effects interpretation of the Commerce Clause that enabled them. This has become the primary means of expansion of the federal government, and has become an open-ended grant of power to Congress, at the expense of the authority and sovereignty of the States. What Trump wants, and what he needs to have in order to do everything he's promising on his terms is the same kind of expansion of the power of the Executive Branch.
This is the "long view", and your arguments for Trump, or against Cruz suffer from the peculiar malady that seems to infect American politics - the inability to consider anything beyond the next election.