Ted Cruz's judgment day

The Cruz campaign has taken Trump seriously for months now. It took note over the summer of the thousands and thousands of people attending his events, and Cruz spent the entire fall assiduously avoiding offending Trump, in the hopes that some of his backers would eventually come over to Cruz. When he did unload, the campaign put thousands of dollars behind negative ads.

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But when it hatched its Southern strategy a year ago, no one predicted that there would be another candidate who would better tap into the fierce anti-Washington sentiment that Cruz spent his first years in the Senate owning.

“At the time when we constructed this nearly a year ago, we were not going to be opposite of Donald Trump, it was going to be opposite the establishment candidate,” the Cruz adviser said. “None of us ever thought, with one quarter of the delegates cast, there would be a nominee. What we believed this night would be was us versus the establishment candidate, the establishment field would narrow, we would have narrowed the conservative field.”

“This happened,” the source continued. “Plus Donald Trump.”

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