Team Ted burned “principled” to ashes on the altar of winning. The spirit of the Phoenix is dead, killed by SNAFU status quo politics. Unbelievable from Team Ted, who was billed over and over as the only "principled" conservative in the race.
Denial is now a dirty river running deep and strong through the Cruz campaign.
Both Cruz and Trump have been stress tested.
Trump has less to go wrong, for what is essentially a secular post, than Cruz has. Trump has only (as best as I know) the light in the world, Cruz has the gospel.
You expect the spelling bee champ to do a better job than the guy who never made it past fourth grade on the farm. For that farm boy to be so close to the spelling champ should tell the spelling champ something.