Well folks, it's official - Donald J. Trump is your presumptive Republican Candidate. It's the day most of us have had nightmares about, and it's finally here. As of today, Ted Cruz has dropped out of the presidential race. Our monstrous friend Ted dropped out on Tuesday after a major loss to Trump in Indiana. Cruz had hoped to round up a winning alliance by getting the votes of the evangelical and libertarian wings of the Republican party while also racking up wins in the south. Obviously though, he was unable to achieve any of those things. Evangelicals split their votes between Trump and Cruz, he had hinted at the end of his campaign on Dana Loesch's radio show, saying that he had "left it all on the field." Cruz's final weeks were very awkward, including naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate, when he hadn't even won in the primary, and seemingly failed to noticed when she fell of the stage in front of him. Cruz played his cards right in the beginning by separating himself from the other candidates who were crushed by Trump by playing the "nice guy" or the "outsider" in Washington, believing that ultimately Trump's campaign would suffer and implode from remarks and actions that went too far. Obviously, that never happened. A man with uncompromising stances and spotlight-seeking actions, it looks like our friend Ted's tactics didn't work as well as planned.
This can be synthesized to when there was an upset win between Al Gore and George Bush, though both men were on different parties and were viable Presidential candidates, they still had the issue of split votes from third party voters, which ultimately resulted in a loss for Gore.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/ted-cruz-drops-out/
Honestly, Cruz had no chance of winning the presidential election but I think Trump is running unopposed now that Cruz dropped out, which I think is worse because there's nobody to take votes away from Trump.
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