Heidi Cruz on Tuesday compared supporters’ efforts to get her husband, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), into the White House to the years-long effort to end slavery.
Heidi Cruz made the comment in a conference call with the campaign’s National Prayer Team, The Texas Tribune reported. The Texas senator dropped out of the presidential race last week following a flailing performance in the Indiana primary, and Heidi Cruz said that she didn’t want supporters to feel as if their efforts were “in vain.”
“Be full of faith and so full of joy that this team was chosen to fight a long battle,” she reportedly said. “Think that slavery—it took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years.”
Cruz assured listeners on the call that they didn’t “give up” the race and that there was just “no viable path to victory,” according to the report. She went on to say that she felt as if her husband’s presence in the election had changed the Republican Party.
