Ted Cruz Hits the Campaign Trail With the VP Pick of the Man He Hates

by Micah J. Fleck

Well, I’m sure those of us who dared to give Cruz the benefit of the doubt earlier in this election are more than embarrassed by this point. I know I am. Mike Pence, the man Donald Trump has picked as is Vice Presidential running mate, is now on the campaign trail with Cruz. I guess all that talk about how Trump can’t insult his wife, and how the Republicans need to vote principle over party, doesn’t matter to him, now.

NBC reports:

For the first time in the 2016 presidential campaign, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz stood behind a Donald Trump campaign podium on Thursday. He was back in Iowa for the first time since exiting the presidential race in May, alongside GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence just five days before the election.

“This election has been a wild ride,” Cruz cracked after taking the microphone on stage inside a sheet metal barn just outside of Des Moines.

Yet the Texas senator, who endorsed the GOP nominee in September, neglected to acknowledge Trump by name in his first stop, instead imploring the supporters in attendance to send “a Republican” to the White House.

“Putting a Republican in the White House and keeping a Republican House and Senate is the whole enchilada,” Cruz said at the Pence campaign rally in the Hawkeye state, where he won the Iowa caucus just nine months ago.