Ted Cruz calls his decision to back Trump ‘agonizing’
Addressing a policy forum organized by the Texas Tribune, the Texas senator said Saturday it was “agonizing” making the decision to back Trump, whom he once called a “pathological liar” and “serial philanderer.”
Cruz rocked the Republican National Convention in Cleveland by avoiding an endorsement of the nominee and instead urging delegates to “vote your conscience.”
Trump angered Cruz in the primaries by insulting his wife and suggesting, without evidence, that his Cuban-born father could have been linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Cruz aides say the senator felt boxed in by his past position on Trump because he had urged voters not to stay home in November but also didn’t think any third-party candidates were viable.