“I don’t know for sure but I think he said that his leadership lied to him about that.”
That is true; Cruz did blame leadership. He weasel-worded his excuse by saying that he believed Mitch McConnell. That, in itself, is a serious display of lack of discernment. A conservative would never believe McConnell.
Trump claims that Cruz shouldn’t be elected because he doesn’t know how to “deal” with people like McConnell. He should have made a deal with McConnell instead of exposing what was going on. Exactly how is that different than what Cruz thought he was doing based on the promises McConnell made which he then found out McConnell didn’t live up to - so he exposed the crooked “dealing” that McConnell was doing. Trump seems to be saying that Cruz was good to make the deal but bad to expose the crookedness of the R leadership.
I am undecided between Trump and Cruz, but I’m troubled by the actions and responses of both men. I think that Cruz being willing to expose the crap within the system is closer to what we need than Trump’s idea of making deals. We’ve had enough of DC’s “sausage” to last a long time.
But as I’ve said before, I don’t think the new POTUS-elect will ever be inaugurated, unless we get some REAL stuff - not “sausage” - out of DC very, very quickly - specifically to get our portable radar system to cover the hole in our southern radar defense so we could stop an EMP attack by Obama’s buddies the Iranians, who Obama has made sure would have nukes by the end of his last term so he can be POTUS for “8-10 years” as he said he would be in July of 2008.