After losing the Indiana Republican presidential primary to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz suspended his campaign. Cruz had called Indiana his firewall, and said on Monday he would fight on as long as he had a viable path to the Republican nomination. "Tonight, I'm sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed," Cruz told a crowd in Indianapolis on Tuesday night. "Together, we left it all on the field in Indiana. We gave it everything we had. But the voters chose another path." Cruz ended his speech promising to fight on. "We are suspending our campaign," he said, "But hear me now, I am not suspending our fight for liberty," the U.S. Constitution, and the "Judeo-Christian values that built America."
Carly Fiorina, who just last week joined Cruz's campaign as his running mate, introduced Cruz, saying she spoke for the whole Cruz team "when I tell you how many Hoosiers we have fallen in love with on this campaign." She thanked everyone in the room, and said "we came here as warriors, warriors in a cause." Fiorina called Cruz "one of the great citizens of this extraordinary nation." When he came on, Cruz began, "God bless the Hoosier State," talked about the last contested Republican convention, when Ronald Reagan lost to Gerald Ford in 1976, suggesting that he may be back again for the 2020 race. Peter Weber
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