Cruz: Even Though Rubio Got the Big Endorsements, We Are Still Tied for Second

STEPHANOPOULOS: "You’ve been making that case, but it’s not working so far. Donald Trump won New Hampshire, won South Carolina yesterday by a large margin. As you know, no Republican who has won both of those has ever been denied the nomination. Are you going to be have to — having to make a new and tougher case against Donald Trump? And what is it?"
CRUZ: "Look, a primary is an ongoing conversation. Everyone in the media said Trump was going to win Iowa. We, then, had the largest turnout, earned more votes in Iowa than any Republican in history. You know, last night, one of the most encouraging results, our campaign we won young people in South Carolina. We won young people. You know what, we also won young people in Iowa, that’s two states in a row in which we won young people. And even New Hampshire, we were in second place with young people. You know, you want to talk about where the excitement, where the energy is, young people want a brighter future, they want jobs, they want their constitutional rights protected. And I’ve got to say one of the things that was remarkable is if you look at South Carolina, we had millions and millions and millions of dollars of attack ads coming against us. We had Marco who was just on was endorsed by a very popular governor of the state, very popular senator, very popular congressman, all the establishment circled their wagons around Marco and yet he still only came in second after his campaign promised everyone they were going to win the state. You know, frankly, if I’d had done that in Iowa — look, in Iowa we had the heavy hitters come behind our campaign. If we’d have come in second or third, you guys would have barbecued us for having all the big hitters behind us and not winning it. Well, we won Iowa, and even though all the big hitters were behind one of our opponents in South Carolina, we still effectively tied for second. And what we’re doing systematically, nationally, is unifying conservatives."