What some folks on our side don't get is, if you take Trump out of the equation, Cruz gets demolished by the establishment GOP machine.
Much as we bitter clingers love him, he doesn't yet have the kind of political weight, momentum, and inertia it takes to defeat the institutionalized gubmint cabal.
Cripes - he's only 44. My baby sis, who's ten years my junior, is eight years older than he is! The man has a long future ahead of him in Washington, and will have many other opportunities to vie for the top job.
You are correct about Cruz. I really like him...he is just about everything I stand for myself. But he would not survive in this election cycle. We need Trump to demolish the establishment GOP machine, and I believe Trump will prevail. Then it becomes time for our good friend Cruz.
A Trump landslide would effectively do serious damage to the GOPe. Cruz as VP, or as Senate Majority Leader or as Atty Gen'l...and at some point the Supreme Court.
One of the most important reasons for having a GOP President and a conservative GOP Congress is Federal and Supreme Court judicial appointments. This is why we can't stay home on election day this election cycle. Federal/Supreme Court excesses must be stopped now, or we won't have a Country, This United States of America, anymore.