BREAKING: Ted Cruz Drops Out of GOP Presidential Race
Texas Tea Party Republican Senator Badly Beaten by Manhattan Billionaire
Ted Cruz has just dropped out of the Republican presidential campaign. The Texas freshman Senator who ran on a platform of Christian extremism, anti-LGBT civil rights, and anti-abortion, moments ago accepted reality after Donald Trump decisively won Indiana by double digits.Â
Cruz was the first candidate to enter the 2016 presidential race, and even chose a running mate just last week, Carly Fiorina.Â
Cruz made many mistakes, among them his attack on all New Yorkers when he lambasted “New York Values.”
Politico was the first to report, minutes ago:
.@tedcruz is quitting the presidential race, according to campaign manager Jeff Roe https://t.co/KeoEAx0jaM pic.twitter.com/8QigpbqsNC
— POLITICO (@politico) May 4, 2016
UPDATE I: 8:48 PM EDT –
Some responses via Twitter:
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Trump is the Republican nominee. They’ve nominated a fascist, racist, misogynist, which really does capture the current day GOP
— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) May 4, 2016
Good riddance to Quitter Cruz, a man so unlikable, #IndianaPrimary rejected him for for a lying madman neo-fascist racist #DumpTrump #MSNBC
— Dan Dinello (@da66y) May 4, 2016
Cruz: “But I’m not suspending the fight to defend the Judeo-Christian values that built America.” That’d be news to the founders. AA
— Atheist Pi (@PiAtheist) May 4, 2016
— Jeremy Hooper (@goodasyou) May 4, 2016
Ted Cruz claims America was founded on Judeo-Christian values although most founding fathers were deists. pic.twitter.com/dUxDifsBbB
— Clint Wells (@ClintWells) May 4, 2016
Cruz speech drinking games: Lemonade stands, Judeo-Christian values, freedom, America, exceptional, America, God, City on a hill, America
— Amy Ando (@AndoAW) May 4, 2016
“We our suspending our campaign,” Ted Cruz says, “but I am not suspending the Judeo-Christian values that built America.”
So we’ve got that.— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) May 4, 2016
Not to bother you on a busy night, @GOP, but will there be a vegetarian alternative to the crow you all will be eating in Cleveland?
— Jeremy Hooper (@goodasyou) May 4, 2016
UPDATE II: 9:01 PM EDT –
Whoa. GOP Party Chair:
.@realDonaldTrump will be presumtive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) May 4, 2016
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