He sure is conservative alright. And, no conservative has ever been nominated in the Republican Party for fifty years! Since Reagan, and even Reagan was no Cruz as a conservative.
You have to be viable. Able to carry more than your Anglo Christian Right little base, to stand a chance. Cruz supporters will freak out when he has to grow support beyond his little base.
This country is clearly a secular nation. This isn’t our grandpa’s America, outside of the South.
As someone with Irish ancestry, I am certainly not Anglo.
Do you think Trump can win the Republican Party nomination without what you dismissively call the "little Anglo Christian Right"? Many of us do not trust this guy on issues that are very important to us, including the increasingly important issue of religious liberty.