Ted Cruz caves, endorses Donald Trump
It took months of soul-searching, but finally Sen. Ted Cruz has remembered he doesn't have one.
After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump. [...]A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment.
Ted Cruz, you will recall, nearly fomented a riot when he gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that conspicuously omitted any endorsement of Trump. Ted Cruz spent the waning days of his own presidential run pointing out—accurately, to his credit—that Donald J. Trump was an "utterly amoral" "pathological liar." He considered Trump's asinine suppositions that Cruz's father was involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Trump's posting of an unflattering picture of Cruz's wife, to be unforgivable, as was Trump's still-unspecified threat to "spill the beans" about his wife. Some things were beyond politics, and Ted Cruz was willing to stake his name and reputation on the core belief that Donald Trump was utterly unfit to be president of the United States.
But yada yada Hillary Clinton, and the Supreme Court, and OBAMACARE!!!, according to his endorsement post, and now Ted Cruz is willing to move past the insults to his family and the clear and obvious amorality of the pathological liar and do whatever the hell he thinks the voters want to hear this week. He tried so hard to have a principle. He tried so very hard—all of his stated reasons for supporting Trump now also existed on the evening he so publicly refused to support him.
What's changed? How's Ted Cruz justifying his very, very belated switcher?