Apparently the reason they haven’t called Missouri yet is there are some outstanding absentee ballots but I fail to see how a 1726-vote lead would be erased by that.
By not winning a single state, Cruz had a catastrophic night, with Trump winning by huge margins in Florida and Illinois, a decent win in North Carolina and apparently a squeaker in Missouri. The problem for Cruz is that, with the exception of North Carolina, the delegates are awarded in such a way as to greatly benefit Trump. In IL, Trump got 52 out of 69 delegates, even though he only won the popular vote by 8.5 points (although that is a big margin). And he’s poised to get the lion’s share of MO, too. So Cruz’s delegate math got a whole lot harder.
Overtly dramatic phrases like catastrophic are silly.
Cruz wasn’t expected to win any yesterday.
It is ironic in that he did better in MO than would have been expected, vote wise, but because of how it broke down in the districts, he is getting 5 or 10 less than was expected.
NC was about what was expected.