Senetor Ted Cruz ajitoa kwenye mbio za uteuzi wa kugombea urais marekani.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is ending his
presidential campaign, according to his
campaign manager, bowing to the reality
that his crushing loss in Indiana all but
assured the nomination of Donald J.
Trump.
Mr. Cruz, who staked his bid in the
Republican race on a message of
conservative purity and religious faith, had
suffered through weeks of setbacks as
the primary calendar reached the
Northeast, where Mr. Trump significantly
expanded his lead.
But the senator had hoped to find more
favorable terrain in Indiana, dashing
across the state for over a week in a last-
ditch effort to unify Republicans who
viewed Mr. Trump’s success as an
existential threat to the party.
Since entering the race over a year ago,
Mr. Cruz had far exceeded most
expectations, energizing hard-line
conservatives and casting his toxic
relationships with Senate colleagues as
an asset as he railed against “the
Washington cartel.”
After months spent embracing Mr. Trump
as a worthy presence in the field, Mr.
Cruz abruptly changed course weeks
before the Iowa caucuses , where he
outmaneuvered Mr. Trump to emerge as
his chief rival for the remainder of the
primary season.
The rest of the calendar was less kind.
Early on, the Cruz campaign bet big on
the South, hoping a sweep through the
Super Tuesday primaries on March 1
would boost his delegate count. Though
Mr. Cruz carried his home state of Texas,
as well as Oklahoma, Mr. Trump’s
victories elsewhere forced an instant
scramble from the Cruz campaign to
rejigger its playbook.
A triumph in Wisconsin last month, along
with several wins in state delegate
elections, briefly supplied hope that Mr.
Cruz might yet best Mr. Trump in a floor
fight at the Republican convention. But
the tide turned quickly, beginning with
Mr. Trump’s home state of New York.
All the while, Mr. Cruz wavered on a
pledge to support any eventual
Republican nominee.
In a final appearance on Tuesday
morning, Mr. Cruz pleaded with voters to
join him, calling Mr. Trump a
“pathological liar” and “utterly amoral.”
If Indiana voted for his rival, Mr. Cruz
said, “this country could well plunge into
the abyss''