TED CRUZ must have expected to lose in the five Republican presidential primaries in the north-eastern states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island on April 26th, but few had forecast quite such a resounding victory for Donald Trump. Badly in need of diversion from the anaemic state of the “Never Trump” campaign he is spearheading, Mr Cruz rushed the announcement of his vice presidential pick. On April 27th he declared that Carly Fiorina, a former Republican candidate for the presidency, would be his running mate.
At a hastily convened rally at The Pavilion at Pan Am Plaza in downtown Indianapolis, to chants of “Carly, Carly”, the senator from Texas presented Ms Fiorina as a woman of deep principle and character who doesn’t do things by half. “She was born in Texas, the very first thing I liked about her,” said Mr Cruz. He lauded her business career as the first female chief executive of a Fortune-20 company and as someone who has repeatedly shattered glass ceilings. He then went on to praise her credentials as a conservative and her respect of the constitution and the Bill of Rights. Perhaps...Continue reading
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