Cruz may restart campaign if ‘there is a path to victory’

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has expressed possibility of making a comeback to the 2016 US presidential race in case any changes occur in any of the upcoming primaries.

“Let’s be very clear, if there is a path to victory, we launched this campaign intending to win. The reason we suspended the race last week is, with Indiana’s loss, I didn’t see a viable path to victory,” Cruz said in a radio interview on Tuesday. “If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly.”

Keeping an eye on Tuesday’s Nebraska GOP primary along with West Virginia, the Texas senator added that he wouldn’t completely rule himself out of the race, noting that an unlikely victory in the Nebraska primary could bring his campaign back to life.

Cruz suspended his campaign last week after losing big in Indiana's primary and just a day later Senator John Kasich also dropped out, clearing the way for Donald Trump to become the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party.

When asked whether he is to support Trump’s bid for presidency, Cruz refused fielding clear-cut answers, saying, "This is a choice every voter is going to have to make. I would note, it's not a choice we as voters have to make today."

“The voters in the primary seem to have made a choice,” he added. “We’ll see what happens as the months go forward, I think we need to watch and see what the candidates say and do.”

The Texas senator also dismissed the prospects of a convention fight or third-party presidential bid.

US media ‘manipulating’ voters

The suspended 2016 presidential candidate slammed the role of the media and a small group of media executives who, as he said, manipulated coverage to benefit the candidate that they had chosen to win.

"This election will be studied for the role of the media, and in particular network executives," Cruz said. "There’s no doubt we need to think hard about what is the role of a handful of network executives in manipulating and trying to deceive the voters because I think it’s a very dangerous dynamic we have right now."

“Now for example, Trump has received over $3 billion in fee air time,” Cruz added. “Amazingly, in the last 30 days he has $500 million in free air time, 90 percent of which was positive.”

“To put that in perspective, the entire 13 months of the campaign, the aggregate coverage of my campaign was about $500 million dollars worth,” he continued. “He got that in 30 days and 90 percent of his was positive and that has a dramatic effect on the polls, when every network effectively becomes the super PAC for the candidate they want to win the nomination.”

Many experts point in part to Trump's free media dominance as a key to his success.

The Texas senator ended his presidential bid last Tuesday after suffering a big loss to Trump in the Indiana primary by a margin of 53 percent to 37.

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