Ted Cruz finally got his first senate endorsement: Utah Senator Mike Lee is endorsing Cruz. Via NBC:
Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz will pick up his first Senate endorsement Thursday when Sen Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, will announce he’s backing Cruz, sources familiar with the decision tell NBC News.
The endorsement comes just days before key contests in Ohio and Florida, and it gives the Texas Republican momentum after winning Idaho on Tuesday and receiving the endorsement of former Republican candidate Carly Fiorina on Wednesday.
Lee was one of only three GOP senators who missed today’s Senate vote on a bill to aid those affected by opioid abuse. The other two were Sens Rubio and Cruz.
While Cruz has become a divisive figure within the Republican conference in the Senate, Lee is considered one of his only allies, and at a recent campaign stop Cruz said Lee was “someone I love like a brother.”
But Lee has not endorsed until today, instead choosing to campaign for both Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida.
“I’ve got two really good friends in this race,” Lee told reporters at a Cruz campaign stop in South Carolina in February, “Any one of them running alone would have gotten my endorsement a long time ago.”
The endorsement of Cruz over Rubio before Tuesday’s primary in Rubio’s home state of Florida may be a sign that Republicans see Cruz as the candidate who has the best chance to combat Donald Trump.
This could be terrible news for Marco Rubio. The Florida Senator needs all the non-establishment street credit he can get if he’s going to hang around. This is a sign that the writing may be on the wall.
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