--- title: Ted Cruz Says There's No Anti-Donald Trump Alliance description: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tried to dispel the narrative Thursday that he has an alliance with Ohio Gov. John Kasich to block Donald Trump canonical: https://time.com/4311549/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-28T19:09:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:07:33.746Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ted Cruz Says He Doesn't Actually Have an Alliance With John Kasich og:description: "There is no alliance" og:url: https://time.com/4311549/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ted Cruz Says He Doesn't Actually Have an Alliance With John Kasich twitter:description: "There is no alliance" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ted Cruz Says He Doesn't Actually Have an Alliance With John Kasich by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Apr 28, 2016 7:09 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Apr 28, 2016 7:09 PM CUT [Texas Sen. Ted Cruz](http://time.com/4310768/john-boehner-ted-cruz-lucifer-in-the-flesh/?xid=homepage "undefined") tried to dispel the narrative Thursday [that he has an alliance with Ohio Gov. John Kasich](http://time.com/4306047/cruz-kasich-unite-block-trump-gop-election-2016/ "undefined") to prevent Donald Trump from winning the nomination. “I recognize that the media is all eager to talk about an alliance.” [Cruz said](http://time.com/4311228/ted-cruz-john-boehner-donald-trump/ "undefined") in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “There is no alliance. Kasich and I made a determination where to focus our energies. Where to focus our assets, where to focus our resources.” The Cruz and Kasich campaigns announced on Sunday that they would focus on different states. Cruz would spend resources in Indiana, while Kasich would focus on New Mexico and Oregon and seek to keep as many delegates away from Trump as possible. But the pact quickly came apart in the day after the agreement was made, and now it appears to have reached a new low with Cruz turning around on the agreement. “John Kasich made the decision, in his own political self-interest, to withdraw from Indiana and to go compete elsewhere,” [Cruz](http://time.com/4309812/ted-cruz-carly-fiorina-vice-president-running-mate/?xid=homepage "undefined") said on Thursday. “And that was a perfectly reasonable decision.” John Weaver, the Kasich’s campaign chief strategist, appeared to suggest on Twitter that Cruz is a liar. > [](https://twitter.com/JWGOP/status/725715485526884352) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4311549/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4311549/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance/"},"headline":"Ted Cruz Says He Doesn't Actually Have an Alliance With John Kasich","datePublished":"2016-04-28T19:09:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:07:33.746Z","description":"\"There is no alliance\"","url":"https://time.com/4311549/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","ted cruz","Donald Trump","john kasich"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4311549/ted-cruz-john-kasich-alliance/","name":"Ted Cruz Says He Doesn't Actually Have an Alliance With John Kasich"}}]}] ```