Texas Sen. Ted Cruz touted his latest endorsement Wednesday from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as a clear demonstration that he’s capable of unifying Republican voters.
“What we’re seeing all across the country is that the momentum is with us and I’ll tell you, one of the things that shows that is [that] this morning, Jeb Bush endorsed our campaign,” the Republican presidential hopeful told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
“If you think about it, in the last 10 days we’ve been endorsed by Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Lee and Mark Levin,” he continued.
“I mean, you want to talk about a broad coalition [that is] ideologically diverse? That covers the entire spectrum of the Republican Party,” Cruz contended.
In addition to claiming his appeal is broader than GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s, the Texas senator said he is also the best-positioned candidate to beat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a general election.
“What we’re seeing is that 60 to 65 percent of Republicans nationally recognize that Donald Trump is not the right candidate to go up against Hillary Clinton – that Donald loses to Hillary,” he said.
Cruz crushed Trump in Utah’s Republican primary Tuesday night, carrying nearly 70 percent of the vote, but lost to the billionaire in Arizona. The first-term senator is now 274 delegates behind Trump in the race to 1,237.
