A lot of Cruz supporters, then, were howlers as well.
You keep trying to act like it was only Trump supporters that blasted Ted Cruz for his weak statement, but that is false.
Ted Cruz got pilloried by his own supporters, in many cases. Dozens of them on this very forum switched to Donald Trump as a result, and that pattern was replicated elsewhere.
These were voters who did nothing more than read and hear Ted Cruz's statement for themselves, and formed their own opinion accordingly.
So, to reiterate, the "howlers" you decry, those who "twisted" Ted Cruz's words, included many of his own (former) supporters.
Cruz's wounds were self-inflicted, not caused by "howlers" and their ilk...
How dare you try to respond with facts are reason.
This is the same type of behavior that caused me to switch from Cruz several months ago.
Trump is not perfect nor close to it in any way, but I trust him to do what he is saying and I trust a competitive businessman to be the best option we have to get trade straightened out and the economy operating better by getting the government out of the way.
Horse manure.
I saw headlines which took a partial quote (3 or 4 words) of Cruz and cobbled it together with nonsense to make the headline.
The whole "Cruz supports protesters" LIE got legs, and like lies do, was all over the media before the truth could get off the stoop.
That hurt, the perception created by media distortion and read by people who only read the half quotes and twisted screed of the chattering class which gave them the impression that the overwhelming preponderance of media accounts were correct.
They were not, they remain a distortion.
But that was brayed over and over on this forum, even, where people used to critically analyze the statements of the press.
If Dan Rather had produced 'fake but accurate' memos about Cruz instead of 'W' he'd still have a job today, because the analysis here would have been drowned out by Trump supporters.