Cruz needs to push Rubio out of the race—by handing Florida’s delegates to Trump.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
went to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s hometown Wednesday to announce the
endorsement of former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. Speaking at Miami-Dade
College, just steps from where his rival announced his presidential
campaign, Cruz timed the surprise as a gut-punch to a flailing rival,
not as a tactic to win Florida’s 99 delegates, which almost certainly
remain out of his reach.Hurting Rubio is also why Cruz has opened 10 field offices in the state and on the heels of a seven-figure investment from Cruz’s super PAC on Florida airwaves. On its surface, the spending is unremarkable—a fraction of what it takes to make a significant difference in the state—but it flies in the face of the GOP establishment’s best-laid plans to trip-up Donald Trump.
“It’s chess, not checkers,” says one Cruz strategist, surveying what remains of the field. “It’s not only about stopping Trump, it’s about making Ted Cruz president,” said another
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