Maryland, US

A reflection of republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz is photographed above members of the audience at the conservative political action conference at National Harbor. Texas senator Ted Cruz is attempting to encourage Republicans to rally round him as the ‘stop Trump’ candidate. But increasingly the GOP establishment have been floating the idea of preventing the New York businessman from winning the nomination not at the ballot box but in a ‘contested convention’ , which would bring another candidate in over the heads of the voters at the party’s July convention