Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, is a Cuban immigrant, Evangelical Preacher, and one of his son’s most important surrogates.
That’s why, on Thursday, April 21, as Ted was addressing Indiana Republican Party’s spring dinner, Rafael Cruz went to Puerto Rico on a secret mission: to meet in private with some of the island’s 23 delegates.
Those delegates were not won by his son, but by Marco Rubio, who swept all 23 delegates when the territory went to the polls on March 6.
Rubio suspended his presidential bid on March 15 after losing a crushing loss in his home state of Florida. However, he exited the race with a total of 171 pledged delegates from over 21 states and territories.
Those delegates are very important to Cruz if he hopes to win in the event of a contested convention this summer.
“Many Christians have said, ‘Politics is a dirty business, I don’t want any part of it,’” he said. But “if the righteous are not running for office, if the righteous are not even voting, what is left? The wicked electing the wicked.”
Cruz trails in the delegate count 992-562 to Trump, but securing as many votes for Cruz after the first ballot is his strategy going into the Cleveland Republican National Convention in July.
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