“Cruz wasn’t strong in any of the states on Saturday, either, until he was.”
A candidate can outperform their polling in caucus states, where party regulars run the process. Much harder to do in primary ballot states where party regulars have little control over voters.
Texas is a straight primary ballot state, and Ted won here by the smallest margin that any Republican has ever won by, in their home state.
Ted was also expected to do far better across the southern states than he’s done.
Maybe a miracle will happen, and Ted will defy the law of gravity in the upcoming states. We’ll see.
That thing about Texas is true, I guess, but I believe that was also the largest number of candidates on the ballot. Had it been a 2 or 3 person contest I think Cruz would have taken well over 50%. That is a not-so-important piece of trivia.