By just about any measure, Sen. Ted Cruz had a terrible election night on Tuesday. It was already nearly mathematically impossible for him to win a majority of delegates before the Republican convention, and after he lost all five states on Tuesday by huge margins, it would take a meltdown of unprecedented proportions by Donald Trump for Cruz to win the nomination. Or, as The Drudge Report put it:
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