I saw that, too.
Dude is Monty Python’s Black Knight, personified.
This was basically a D.B. Cooper move except Ted forgot to ask for a parachute or money.
He seems to have traded away a good chance to be president in 2024 (after supporting Trump) for a very slim chance of being president in 2020 or ever.
Who knows, maybe he harbors some illusion of running this year. I don’t think he could get that together, under any banner, but if he did, his share of the vote would be no better than the Libertarians, it would drain some of their vote perhaps, and I can’t see him getting even 5%.
This mystifies me. But at the same time, it’s a one-day wonder. Once Donald Trump speaks and pulls together his team of support (which is considerable) most of the focus will switch to the Democrats for a week or two, and then it will be game on for the general election. Ted Cruz has had his last major action of a complicated drama. He just hasn’t grasped fully that while he’s one kind of rebel against the GOP establishment, Trump is more generally an alternative to that orthodoxy and one that is much more attractive to the voters. Cruz was plan B in the inevitable process of replacing the GOP of the Bush-Romney era, but plan A will win out. End of story.