Look Cruz has something like 148 of the Texas delegation that is pledged to him. They are going to vote for him on the 1st ballot.
An it will make absolutely ZERO difference because he will still be far, far short of enough to make any kind of difference.
Trump is going to walk into Cleveland with over 1,400 delegates.
Cruz is trying to buttress up his own support to have some influence over the platform.
Since he is going to end up with the highest delegate count and the highest popular vote of any 2nd place GOP finisher in the last 20+ years...he has a right to try and have some influence.
But as far as his prospects for any hope for the nomination...that bus left the station after NY, and had disappeared after Indianan.
...and he recognized it and suspended his campaign.
But he still hopes to have some influence and probably feels he owes it to what will probably be close to 8 million people ho voted for him.
This is a tempest in a tea pot as far as I am concerned.
“tempest in a tea pot “
Yes, there are plenty of good reasons for this.
The obvious one is that ‘his’ people just want to go to the convention!
The problem isn’t the platform, it’s the rules committee. The platform is his excuse.
This isn’t about Ted being nominated.
He wants to take control of the convention rules and the party platform.
In other words, he wants to dictate what the message of the party is.
He had great plans of making over the party in his image but then Trump came along and stole his thunder.
Now he wants to say Trump is the winner but he will have to live by Ted’s rules.
He is an arrogant, selfish, delusional POS!
Nonsense. Cruz only cares about himself. He is an opportunist, who played a conservative for a while, because it suited his purposes — he thought that will get him elected.
Now he just wants to keep his name in the lights.
If so, then he's stupid, not smart, because this is the worst possible way to having any influence with anything Trump has a say so on.
You may be right, but I don’t know. I find it difficult if not impossible to trust Ted Cruz,
If that's all there is to it, fine. But any slack cut Ted when he suspended his campaign will be withdrawn if he engages in convention shenanigans.
It is very important that Conservatives direct their fire, between now and the November election, on those who will be on the ballot, supporting the Leftist agenda, that is destroying our heritage. Where possible, we should avoid dissipating out energy and dividing people on the right, taking umbrage at the desperate attempts of the "somewhat Conservative" politicians to appear more relevant than they really are.
Tightly focused fire on the real enemies--those who are actively trying to undermine America should be the battle cry.
(Now that does not mean that we can completely ignore the forked pens of certain humiliated pseudo-conservative journalists who are actively & aggressively seeking to shoot down our candidate--such as the Beck's, Kristols & National Review. They are a special viper class that are obsessed, and have totally earned their collapsing credibility.)