Insult to Injury: Ted Cruz Accidentally Elbows Wife in the Face as He Drops Out of Presidential Race
The entire Cruz family took a hit on Tuesday night.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign after losing the Indiana GOP primary to Donald Trump Tuesday – and gave his wife a couple of accidental whacks in the process.
While delivering his concession speech from Indianapolis, Indiana, Cruz unintentionally delivered the one-two punch, bumping and then elbowing Heidi Cruz in the face. The 45-year-old was hugging his father and Heidi when the impacts happened – a moment forever memorialized on video.
While Cruz had been adamant that he would battle it out with Trump until the end in hopes of a contested convention this summer, he said on Tuesday that his "path has been foreclosed."
"But hear me now," he told supporters. "I am not suspending our fight for liberty. I am suspending our fight to defend the constitution; to defend the Judeo-Christian values that built America."
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Ahead of Tuesday's primaries, Cruz didn't hold back his disdain for Trump, calling the billionaire businessman "utterly amoral," according to NBC News.
"This man is a pathological liar," Cruz charged, adding that Trump was also a "serial philanderer."
