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https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DEC15-TedCruz.jpg706504An increasingly desperate Ted Cruz, who was shut out on Tuesday as Donald Trump swept five Republican primary states, today named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate, in a move that smacked of Joementum. Cruz has almost no chance now of going into the convention with more delegates than Trump, and so will be attempting to wrest the nomination away from Trump at the convention.