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 Ted Cruz went on a blistering ramble against Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering a list of stinging personal attacks that included calling the GOP frontrunner a “serial philanderer,” “pathological liar” and a “narcissist.” 
 
 The attacks came on the day of the Indiana primary and hours after Trump repeated a tabloid report tying Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 
 
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 “This man is a pathological liar. He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth,” Cruz told reporters in Evansville, Indiana. 
 
 The Hoosier State primary is crucial for Cruz’s goal of preventing Trump from gaining enough delegates to secure the GOP presiential nomination. Most polls show Trump with a lead in the state, and Cruz’s attacks against his rival on Tuesday went into his personal life in a way Trump’s opponents have largely avoided until now. 
 
 “Donald Trump is a serial philanderer and he boasts about it,” Cruz said. “This is not a secret, he is proud of being a serial philanderer." 
 
 The Texas senator also echoed an attack used by Hillary Clinton, saying Trump is afraid of strong women and is a “bully” to females. 
 
 That was an impressive meltdown... Desperate but impressive. Reminded me of my 3 year old coming off a sugar high. https://t.co/3lqwHIRWo6 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 3, 2016 
 
 “If anyone has seen the movie ‘Back to the Future II’, the screenwriter says that he based the character Biff Tannen on Donald Trump, the caricature of a braggadocious, arrogant buffoon...We are looking, potentially, at the Biff Tannen presidency,” Cruz said. 
 
 Trump responded in a statement: "It is no surprise he has resorted to his usual tactics of over-the-top rhetoric that nobody believes. Over the last week, I have watched Lyin’ Ted become more and more unhinged...Today’s ridiculous outburst only proves what I have been saying for a long time, that Ted Cruz does not have the temperament to be President of the United States." 
 
 The senator has avoided directly answering whether he would support Trump as the Republican presidential nominee. But the increasingly personal battle between the two candidates who earlier in the campaign had an informal alliance brings into question how the party will unite once a nominee is selected. 
 
 And though Cruz has vowed to continue his campaign as long a viable path to the nomination exists, he talked about the impact of Tuesday’s results in no uncertain terms. 
 
 “If Indiana does not act, this country could well plunge into the abyss,” Cruz said. ||||| INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign Tuesday, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump's march to the Republican nomination. 
 
 The conservative tea party firebrand who tried to cast himself as the only viable alternative to Trump ended his campaign after a stinging defeat in Indiana's Republican primary. 
 
 "It appears that path has been foreclosed," Trump told supporters in Indianapolis. "Together, we left it all on the field of Indiana. We gave it everything we've got, but the voters chose another path, and so with a heavy heart but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign." 
 
 Had he succeeded in his quest, Cruz would have been the first U.S. president of Hispanic descent, although he often downplayed his heritage on the campaign trail, instead, touting the need for tougher immigration laws, for a border wall along the border with Mexico, protecting gun rights, repealing President Barack Obama's health care law and instituting a flat tax. 
 
 Cruz argued he was the only true conservative in the race, building on his reputation in the Senate where he clashed both with Democrats and members of his own party over his ideological stubbornness. Cruz railed against what he called the "Washington cartel," trying to appeal to an electorate that is craving political outsiders. 
 
 But he ultimately couldn't compete with Trump's appeal among white, working class voters who were drawn to the billionaire's outlandish approach to politics. 
 
 Cruz's campaign placed its hopes on a data-driven effort to turn out conservative evangelical Christians who had opted out of recent presidential elections. Increasingly, he would modify his travel schedule to go where data showed there might be pockets of untapped supporters. 
 
 With the scale tipping increasingly in Trump's favor, he announced an extraordinary pact in April with his other rival, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in which the two would divide their time and resources based on states where they were each poised to do better. 
 
 Days later, he prematurely named former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina as his running mate, hoping it would woo some of the female voters turned off by Trump's brash rhetoric. 
 
 Trump's appeal to evangelicals, though, and the New York billionaire's popularity with the broader Republican electorate, proved too much. 
 
 Cruz was joined on stage with his parents, as well as by Fiorina and his wife, Heidi. 
 
 He made no mention of the Republican front-runner, vowing instead to continue his fight for liberty and for the Constitution. 
 
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 Peoples reported from Washington.
– Ted Cruz is out. The Texas senator is ending his campaign after being routed in Indiana by Donald Trump in Tuesday's primary, reports the AP. Cruz had staged a last stand in the state in the hope of preventing Trump from securing the nomination, but he told supporters that he has no "viable path to victory" after the loss. "The voters chose another path," he said. "We gave it everything we've got." Trump, who was leading by about 15 points, had been declared the winner as soon as polls closed at 7pm EDT. "We're going after Hillary Clinton," he told his own supporters after Cruz's announcement. "And we're going to win." In his speech, Trump also praised Cruz as "one hell of a competitor" and said he had an "amazing future." Shortly after Cruz's bombshell, Republican National Committee chief Reince Priebus tweeted that Trump is the "presumptive nominee," adding that "we all need to unite and focus on defeating" Clinton. In his own speech, Cruz made no mention of the front-runner. Earlier in the day, however, he unleashed a diatribe, calling Trump a "serial philanderer" and a "pathological liar," notes NBC News. That came after Trump dredged up a bizarre National Enquirer report linking Cruz's dad to Lee Harvey Oswald. John Kasich was a distant third in Indiana, though he gave no indication he planned to follow Cruz's lead and drop out.