It seems as though there has already been such an astronomical amount of twists and turns that the presidential campaigns have inflicted among the American population, that it seems as though it could not get any more complicated. But of course, it did. Tues. May 3, Ted Cruz decided to throw in the towel in the presidential campaign after losing the Republican Indiana Primary with Trump leading polls at 53.2 percent.

     The Texas governor had only joined Congress three years prior and managed to push his way to the forefront of the presidential campaign in a surprisingly short amount of time. There were many doubters and many who were against Cruz. But he believed he could gain enough votes through Tea Party members and Evangelical/Libertarian Republicans. But this did not work for him during the Indiana Primary due to the Evangelical voters splitting their votes half for Cruz and half for Trump.

     This was at first seen as a huge shock to the political world, but there were signs that the end for Cruz had to come eventually. One of the holes in Cruz’s plan towards winning the Republican Presidential Nomination was that he hoped to get many of his votes through the South, which sounds good in theory, but did not work out when actually put into play. It also did not help when he seemed to switch sides every other day and when he also picked Carly Fiorina as his running mate, someone who herself was anything but close to winning the nomination.

     The heat felt within the Republican race has so far been far more than average, with more than a dozen candidates dropping after feeling the negative effects of being Trump’s target. Cruz was able to state his own ideologies and make his own path towards victory, but it would not last long before Trump decided to make Cruz one of his next victims.

     The Republican side of the presidential campaign started out with an enormous amount of candidates with big personalities. But this number appears to be dwindling. From Jeb Bush, now to Ted Cruz, it is as though no candidate is safe from the pressures of dropping. Another detail cannot be ignored at this point as well, the fact that Trumps opponents are declining, while his polls are increasing. This can only make one wonder who will be next to drop out of the race, or what crazy decision is going to happen next.