I just watched an interesting and revealing interview with Ted Cruz. NBC's Chuck Todd tried to get Cruz to answer a simple question, "Would you support Donald Trump if he gets the Republican nomination?"
Cruz managed to duck this simple yes or no question nine separate times!
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| Ted Cruz is smiling today, but two days from now he's likely to be staked in the heart by Donald Trump. |
Could it be that my prediction for Cruz way back in January is actually correct?
I said then that Cruz was pulling punches with Trump because the two had already struck a deal to share the GOP ticket. Cruz continues to give that theory credence by refusing to throw a knockout blow at Trump...and he's had a lot of chances.
Cruz could have proven my prediction wrong by simply answering that he couldn't support a Trump nomination under any circumstances. Instead, he fought Chuck Todd's question over and over again.
Having covered politics for decades, I can tell when a candidate is trying to keep the door open.
As of today, neither Cruz nor John Kasich have any mathematical possibility of gaining the GOP nomination on the first convention vote--only Donald Trump does. The former two's only hope for nomination is in a contested convention.
But this coming Tuesday will be their day of reckoning, as Donald Trump will take all of Indiana's delegates with a double-digit victory in the primary there.
After that, if Kasich and Cruz stay in the race. their role is reduced to that of gadfly. There is no way under current rules that Trump doesn't clinch the nomination, and the rules will probably not change.
All the machinations that Cruz has been pulling of late: teaming up with Kasich, choosing Carly Fiorina as his 'running mate', and lobbying delegates behind the scenes, have produced no relevant results.
Ted's simply Cruzin' for a Losin'.
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