Ted Cruz, Having Lost the Republican Race, Names Running Mate Because Why the Hell Not?
Photo courtesy of GettyRepublican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz was mathematically eliminated from winning the Republican nomination outright last night, as Donald Trump embarrassed him in five northeastern states. The number of delegates Cruz needs to secure the 1,237 total to automatically win the race now exceeds the number of delegates still available. His hopes rest on securing the nomination in a brokered convention, but there’s a slight hitch in that plan, which is that none of his colleagues like or respect him.
Basically, this is a hopeless campaign that is running out the clock. And what’s the best move when you’re running a hopeless campaign that is running out the clock?
Quitting. Saving money. Getting some rest. Eating three thousand cans of soup while your wife looks on in horror.
But Ted Cruz isn’t doing any of those things. Ted Cruz, in one of the most laughably presumptuous moves of this or any other election cycle, will name a running mate in a press conference later today. That running mate? Incompetent Hewlett-Packard arsonist and golden parachutist Carly Fiorina.