i have a different take. Ted had no chance at beating trump so he took some desperate measure the past few weeks.
did they hurt him? yes.
did it matter? no.
As a Cruz lover I wish he didn’t do the hings he did the past few weeks, but he was NEVER going to make up the 25 points NO MATTER what he did.
eight years from now anything he did out of desperation these past few weeks will have been LONG LONG LONG forgotten.
trump will find he needs his help in the senate and we will have 16 year of good leadership.
Except Cruz's shaming mailer. That will live in political infamy.
If things that some candidates said from the 1990s are brought up today, I guarantee the Cruz shaming letter will not be forgotten. If that letter was sent with his knowledge and ok, it was a very bad decision. If it was a campaign decision, Ted doesn’t pick good people. He can recover from that only by publicly acknowledging the poor taste/decision of the mailing and firing the manager of whoever made that decision, and move on....quickly. Bad news does not get better with age.