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.
What’s amazing to me is Trump wasn’t the one pulling dirty crap on caucus night when votes were being counted. Ted Cruz, the “principled” conservative did that.
I think Trump was actually stunned as how dirty it was. His after caucus speech was very nice. He congratulated Ted. He seemed very happy and so did his family. That was before he heard about Ted’s dirty tricks.
Donald Trump Speaks After Finishing 2nd in Iowa Caucuses: “We Will Win the Nomination”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrejuO6ZbMo
I would have happily voted for Ted as the nominee because I actually thought he was principled and honorable. But now voting for Ted as the nominee will be just another “cream of the crap” vote for me.