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MIAMI — Carly Fiorina, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race after New Hampshire, endorsed Ted Cruz on Wednesday morning.
Cruz teased the endorsement onstage at a rally at Miami Dade College, saying he was going to introduce a "major business leader" and "serious thinker" who had been a critic of the "absolute disaster that is Hillary Clinton."
Fiorina then took the stage to endorse Cruz, saying she "checked the box" for Cruz when voting last week in Virginia, which voted on Super Tuesday.
"The only one who can beat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz," Fiorina said.
Fiorina appeared to reject the idea of a contested convention, saying, "The only way to beat Donald Trump is to beat him at the ballot box."
The surprise endorsement from a well-liked figure in the party signals increasing Republican acceptance of Cruz as the alternative to Trump. And rolling out the endorsement in Miami — Marco Rubio's hometown — ahead of a Florida primary that is make-or-break for Rubio appears to be a shot across the bow at the rival campaign.
The endorsement did not leak out beforehand, though aides signaled to reporters at the rally that something was coming. As Fiorina was taking the stage, Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe walked past several reporters and asked, "Did you know?"
While still a candidate, Fiorina hadn't always been positive on Cruz; she didn't dismiss the birther attacks on him in January, saying she found it "odd" that he didn't renounce his Canadian citizenship until 2014.
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