If Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz truly wants to unite his party and save America, he should put his ego aside, call up Donald Trump and join forces with him as his vice president to win the White House this November, conservative commentator Wayne Allyn Root said.
In a Fox News opinion piece published on Wednesday, Root—who is known as a "Capitalist Evangelist"—said it's time for Cruz "to wake up and make the phone call that changes history, changes the GOP, changes the course of America."
He said the senator from Texas should face reality that Trump will be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee. "Ted Cruz is delusional if he thinks he can win the nomination...or deserves to win the nomination," Root said. "He was shut out on Tuesday night. Shut out as in zero, zilch, zip, nada. It was Trump 4, Kasich 1, Cruz 0, Rubio cut from the team."
Root said Cruz can't possibly be the Republican nominee since "the nomination winner can't be 0 for 5 on a Super Tuesday. That's not a man on the way to becoming leader of the free world."
Kasich can't also be the nominee since he just won his first state out of 27. "No GOP power broker is stupid enough to award the presidential nomination to a guy who is 1 win, 26 losses. That would be the death of the Republican Party," Root said.
He said the situation facing Cruz is the same as the one faced by Newt Gingrich in 2012. Root said he also called on Gingrich to pick up the phone and call Mitt Romney, the strongest Republican presidential candidate then.
But Gingrich never made the phone call and Romney eventually lost to reelectionist U.S. President Barack Obama.
As a result of that, Root said America's "GDP is near zero, 94 million working-age Americans are no longer working, manufacturing is collapsing, more businesses are closing each day than opening ... middle-class Americans are being bankrupted by Obamacare .. and the national debt is now a staggering $19 trillion."
"We are entering an Obama Great Depression. If only Newt had made that phone call."
Root reminded Cruz that he's just 45 years old and that he can still have a shot at the White House eight years from now. "Tell Donald to take the next eight years. You'll take the next eight. Eight years from now you'll still be only 53 years old. Pick up the phone and call Donald Trump. Tell him you'll take V.P.," he said.
"If Cruz sets aside his ego, Trump/Cruz will stick a stake through the heart of the arrogant, elitist GOP establishment once and for all. Trump and Cruz are the only two truly 'outsider candidates.' Trump has never run for office. Cruz is the most hated man in the U.S. Senate. They are the only two candidates both the GOP establishment and D.C. establishment could never allow to become nominee," Root said.
"Together they control just under 80 percent of the delegates (1,017 out of 1,323). By combining forces, Trump and Cruz have routed the establishment. They've given hope back to the GOP base. They've given power back to the people. The establishment has lost the party. The establishment is out in the cold. Trump/Cruz can't be stopped. The GOP will never be the same. America will be saved."
