“If you look at a number of the candidates that took on Donald Trump early on,” Sen. Ted Cruz told Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes on Wednesday, “they ended up as roadkill.”
These comments mark the first public occasion of Cruz describing the rationale behind his roughly seven-month strategy of kissing Donald Trump’s ass. Seven months ago seems like a quaint and gentler time in American politics, considering that Trump and his allies are now, for example, pushing the message that Heidi Cruz is Thomas Eagleton without the looks. These garbage attacks, which are really happening, worked the usually self-possessed Cruz into a lather on Thursday, culminating in Cruz calling Trump a “sniveling coward.” (He was not so enraged, however, as to rule out supporting Trump should he become the nominee. Country comes first.)
“Our objective was simple from the beginning,” Cruz continued in his conversation with Sykes. “It is to win this race, to win the nomination, and then beat Hillary Clinton and turn this country around.”
“And not be roadkill,” Sykes said.
“And not be roadkill,” Cruz added. “I am very strongly committed on the anti-roadkill approach.”
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