Cruz declines to say whether he would endorse in primaries if president

CNN Politics ^ | August 11, 2015 | Theodore Schleifer

[2ndDivisionVet]

Tupelo, Mississippi (CNN)—Ted Cruz, who has become one of the conservative movement's most sought-after endorsements, declined to say Tuesday whether he would bestow these nods in Republican primaries if he was elected president.

Campaigning here alongside Chris McDaniel, who lost a nasty runoff in one of the tightest tea party-versus-establishment primaries of 2014, Cruz told CNN in an interview that it was premature to say whether he would rule out endorsements from the White House, something President Barack Obama has done only rarely.

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Cruz said on his campaign bus in Tennessee. "Lets wait until we've won some states, won the nomination and won the general, and then we'll worry about endorsement strategies in subsequent elections."

McDaniel, who is Cruz's campaign chair in the Magnolia State, lost a high-profile race to Sen. Thad Cochran last year and rattled national Republicans by refusing to concede and charging that Cochran won the GOP primary fraudulently.

Speaking on the back of a pickup truck at Connie's Fried Chicken on Tuesday morning, the Mississippi firebrand heaped praise on Cruz as the one of the few Republican senators to help him when establishment Republicans defeated him just a year ago....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wait, they're already picturing him in the White House? I thought he was a roundly-hated, bomb-throwing Tea Party firebrand who had no shot at the nomination, much less the presidency?!! What changed?

[FES0844]

Mississippi. Look @ Robert Grays election!

[Vaquero]

What an insipid question. Why not ask about the repair of this once great nation. The MSM needs an enema.

[Resettozero]

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Cruz said on his campaign bus in Tennessee. "Lets wait until we've won some states, won the nomination and won the general, and then we'll worry about endorsement strategies in subsequent elections."

This is why I'm still 100% for Cruz.

And not against Trump.

[Tupelo]

“The MSM needs an enema.”

God knows that is correct. However I think I may be seeing signs that CNN may have had a small B M without getting the full Deep Cleaning so badly needed.
Over the past couple of weeks, maybe a month CNN seems to be treating conservative candidates better than usual. Much better than FOX.

[cripplecreek]

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it,"

Good answer.

[mac_truck]

Kudos to Ted Cruz for campaigning with McDaniels in MS but wasn’t Cruz a vice chairman for the GOP Senate Reelection Committee that backed Thad Cochran?