Over the next several months and years, Ted Cruz and his campaign staff will have plenty of time for soul searching. They will reflect on went wrong with the campaign that once seemed so promising. It certainly did not help that his wife told supporters right before the crucial Indiana primary that the candidate was an immigrant.
At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband’s strengths in the campaign is that he “is an immigrant.”
“Ted is an immigrant,” Mrs. Cruz said, emphasizing the word “is.” “He is Hispanic.”
Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada but who is an American citizen by birth, has come under withering fire from rival Donald Trump over his Canadian birth.
It is likely that Cruz’s fate had been sealed well before Heidi’s damaging remarks. Perhaps the simplest answer is that Ted Cruz simply got “out-outsidered” by Donald Trump. In just about any other election year, Ted Cruz — “Lucifer in the flesh,” according to John Boehner — Cruz would have been the ultimate outsider. By the end of his failed campaign, he only managed one endorsement from a fellow senator. Ultimately Trump’s outsider credentials were too much for Cruz to overcome, and being born outside the United States apparently wasn’t the type of outsider the electorate was looking for.
Source: Washington Examiner
