Cruz was very timid, and quite dependent on Trump to push and defeat the media on those issues.
Cruz was doing well enough that quite a few of us had noticed him for what he was saying. If you require 'reality TV' behaviour, or histrionics, you may not have heard him.
I think you mistake being well mannered for timid. I hope you don't continue to make that error. I have known people who are well mannered, but are anything but timid, especially in a scrap.
He can't take the heat, if Cruz had one tenth of the crap thrown at him by the media or the GOPE did to Trump, he'd be polling below ten per cent.
That's nonsense. I'd bet there are people out there who think Cruz' first initial is 'L', from all the twitter/facebook retweets and reposts that come from the Trump Marketing department. Every round of primaries, Trump people are out there starting a smear campaign that won't be cleaned up and straightened out until after the vote, and Cruz is still in the game, even with the herd splitting off non-Trump votes, now thinned down to Kasich. This isn't WWE, this is a street fight.
But nobody took the wall issue seriously until Trump made it HIS signature issue at the beginning of his campaign.
No one took the heat he did, no one doubled down as he did, and no one has beat the media by setting the narrative as he did.
No one.
Oh wait, I do remember Ted was down at the border with Beck giving teddy bears and soccer balls out, assuring them all he wasn't a bad man......yep, I remember that.
As so many of us who changed preferences from Cruz to Trump. It's why he's winning.
14%. Eat crow for a night. That's the kind of percentages he's going to get when people actually vote.