Conservative leaders and pundits who backed Ted Cruz in the primary or have long opposed Donald Trump were crestfallen to learn on Friday that the Texas senator now plans to vote for his party’s presidential nominee on Nov. 8.

Until Friday, Cruz had stubbornly withheld his endorsement of Trump for months, going so far as to encourage Republicans to vote their conscience during his prime-time speech at the GOP convention in July.

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