For more than two months now, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has insisted he is the only realistic Republican alternative to Donald Trump. Cruz asserted this after the first votes were counted in Iowa, on Feb. 1—even as he only narrowly edged Trump and Marco Rubio in a three-way photo finish.Cruz suggested he was the logical anti-Trump candidate a week later in New Hampshire, even while finishing a weak third behind Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The freshman senator from Texas stuck to his story on Super Tuesday, even as Trump won seven states and Cruz took just three.Now, however, after... More...
