Nice. Wise choice.
This is entirely understandable, and also entirely short sighted.
Expecting the POTUS to do your believing for you, is at best so Old Testament.
In fact God warned against the human-king model.
Trump is embracing the vox populi proxy to vox dei, which to work needs the US people as a whole to come back into live play here. By tossing an endorsement to Cruz here (at least before Cruz gets nominated if he does) then he detracts from the Trump deal dynamic. A deal not entered into is certainly not a deal as good as it could otherwise have been.
And actually I am remembering why I am getting irritated at the idea of being satisfied with politics as usual.
We don’t need any secular official to tell us it is okay to believe on the Lord for all He is worth. That model is going down right NOW and the result is people whining, for example, that God can’t be in schools. When actual experience (and I’m seeing it on Facebook) is that yes! KIDS can bring God just fine into schools and no they don’t have to be master debaters either. But parents have to get off of their “proxy” mindsets and quit waiting for Caesar to do it for them. It might have been better for Phil to point this and to say for that reason he is going to stump for God to be elected in our hearts and say that this is going to matter vastly more than whether Cruz or Trump or even Rubio occupied the White House.
My qualifications for president of the United States are rather narrow: Is he or she Godly, does he or she love us, can he or she do the job, and finally would they kill a duck and put him in a pot and make him a good duck gumbo?
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When you look at the qualifications laid out as succinctly as Phil has laid them out, and note that of all the candidates only Cruz fits the bill (which I agree with), then this is actually the most well-reasoned endorsement I have ever seen.