Did I say he’s unliked by the conservatives? I did’t mean to put conservatives in the hat as ALL conservatives like Cruz, and probably MOST conservative like TRump, but the non-conservatives, you know, like the people you need to have vote for you, they dislike Cruz more than they do Trump.
REmember the Bill Buckley rule. You run the candidate who is the most electably conservative.
Being popular with Congress, who has the lowest approval rating ever recorded by polling I think, does not make you electable.