With SC, Ted lost out and did not carve out another path to victory. WI and UT were mere aberrations.
A leader believes in things but also recognizes where he is and is able to assess his situation reasonably and rationally. Cruz doesn’t seem to be that guy. Rather he seems to be a kind of ideologue going off the deep end of his own advocacy, losing track of where he is. He was like that in the Senate apparently ad nauseum, and he’s demonstrated it here in this nomination race.