http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-will-not-say-if-hell-support-trump/article/2590050Cruz will not say if he'll support Trump
By Gabby Morrongiello (@gabriellahope_) • 5/1/16 9:45 AM
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz now refuses to say whether he will support Donald Trump should the Republican presidential front-runner secure the GOP nomination.
"You've spent this entire interview trying to eviscerate Donald Trump. If he's the nominee, I take it you can't support him anymore, can you?" NBC's Chuck Todd asked the Republican hopeful during an interview Sunday morning.
"I believe if the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump we will lose to Hillary," Cruz responded.
"But are you going to support him?" Todd asked again.
"We will lose," Cruz repeated.
"I understand what you believe in the Republican Party. Can you support him?" the visibly frustrated host asked again.
"What I'm going to do is beat him," Cruz said. "I recognize that many in the media would love for me to surrender to Donald Trump because it means number one that Hillary wins."
"He may win," Todd responded. "Republican voters are the ones rejecting you, this is not a media conspiracy, senator."
Cruz continued to skirt around Todd's initial question about supporting Trump as the nominee for several minutes until the MSNBC anchor pressed him further.
"Why can't you answer the question of whether you can support Donald Trump or not?" Todd said.
"Let me finish this point I'm making," Cruz said, arguing Trump has received disproportionate airtime during the primary campaign.
"You don't get to just say that," Todd said. "You're broad brushing here, and it's — this is exactly what people hate about the media and politics, broad brushes, right?"
"Can you answer the question about whether you are going to support [Trump]?" he added.
"I am going to beat Donald Trump," Cruz said, refusing to answer the question once more.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Sunday shows Trump leading the Texas senator by 15 percentage points in Indiana, where voters are set to cast their ballots next Tuesday.