If Trump doesn’t pick Cruz, then he will not get my vote. I can vote the rest of the ballot without having to vote for Trump.
And .. think about it .. Cruz is the only Constitutional Scholar who will be able to keep Trump out of trouble - by writing the best legislation to put forth the Agenda that Trump keeps saying he wants to do. Without a person who can help Trump use the right language, I can never vote for Rubio .. because Rubio is a back-stabber and he has continued to lie about how he voted/supported the Gang of Eight legislation.
The last thing Trump needs is a back-stabber with knowledge of what Trump is planning to do.
“If Trump doesn’t pick Cruz, then he will not get my vote.”
That is fine. Plenty of new voters and cross-over voters will take your place.
You and other Freepers write about the possibility of Trump picking Cruz, as if the decision were entirely up to Trump, and the potential vice-presidential candidates would have nothing to say about it.
Do you really think Trump would want at his side any man he has described in such negative and insulting terms? If Trump believes what he has said about Cruz—whether those things are true or not—he wouldn’t want someone like that working with him. And Cruz surely would not want to work for or with a man who has repeatedly insulted him in crude terms. It would be pretty demeaning.
No, I think Trump has burned some bridges. He can’t use any of the other candidates he has run against. It’s going to have to be someone outside of the usual process.