Ted Cruz on Trump:

Ted Cruz on Trump:

In that 2016 campaign, I was the only candidate to repeatedly beat Trump.

I won 12 states, and he and I stood in the ring and I punched him in the face as hard as I could, and he punched me in the face as hard as he could, and we kept going.

And I will say, look, Trump, I think, respects somebody who has a backbone, somebody who is a fighter.