U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is expected to announce by Saturday that he will vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, dropping his long-time opposition to him, a Republican source familiar with the situation said on Friday.
Cruz, a senator from Texas who is a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, was one of Trump's last challengers for the Republican presidential nomination to drop out of the race.
When Cruz addressed the Republican National Convention in July in Cleveland, where Trump accepted the nomination, he declined to endorse Trump and was essentially booed off stage by Trump supporters. During the heated primary battle, Trump had insulted Cruz's wife, Heidi, for her physical appearance and suggested that the senator's father was linked to late President John F. Kennedy's assassin.
The source, who asked to remain unidentified, said Cruz was expected to issue a statement either later on Friday or on Saturday to say he would vote for Trump in the Nov. 8 election.
It was unclear if the statement would include an actual endorsement. Cruz has already said he would not vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
[Reuters]
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