IMO, Cruz may have dropped out because there is something to the Lee Harvey story.
I doubt that. More likely the National Enquirer was about to drop the other mistress shoe.
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I think his handlers just cut his puppet strings. No money, no campaign.
They will try to derail Trump through other means. Cruz was too light and frail a tool.
I believe you are right about that. They told him if he loses Indiana, they aren’t going to waste any more money. No money, no chartered jets to the West Coast. No advertising (like that did a fat lot of good.) Plus he was down about 30 points in California, and down in Oregon. NJ was a given. It was beyond over.