AUSTIN – Mike Lee wasn’t going to let Ted Cruz down. Cruz’s later refusal to endorse Trump at the Republican National Convention got him booed offstage, but won him respect on the right. “I think Ted Cruz endorsing Trump at this point plays to the caricature that he is self-interested, not really principled,” wrote Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator who had just published a well-received essay on why he still rejected Trump. “With his endorsement of Donald Trump, a man who humiliated his wife and father, Ted Cruz is the literal definition of a cuckservative,” wrote the anti-Trump conservative columnist Jamie Kirchick. Still, in the Facebook message that explained his conversion, Cruz provided a series of strong policy arguments for backing Trump.

Source: National Post September 24, 2016 04:07 UTC