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“Well, we are fighting to the end, we are fighting to win, and we are going to do everything possible to win here in Indiana," Ted Cruz said ahead of the Hoosier State's key primary next week. | AP Photo Cruz vows to stay in 'as long as we have a path to victory'

Ted Cruz on Thursday said his campaign for the Republican nomination would continue "as long as we have a path to victory," expressing confidence that he would earn a majority of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination during the Republican National Convention.

During an interview on Tony Katz's Indianapolis radio show, Cruz responded to whether his plan would be to go to the convention even if he loses in Indiana, where 57 winner-take-all delegates are up for grabs.

“Well, we are fighting to the end, we are fighting to win, and we are going to do everything possible to win here in Indiana. We’re barnstorming right now," Cruz said, ticking through his three campaign events scheduled across the state and encouraging Katz's listeners to visit both his usual campaign website and the one launched yesterday to mark the choice of his vice presidential pick, Carly Fiorina, CruzCarly.com.

Katz attempted to clarify what Cruz meant later in the same interview, to which the Texas senator responded, “We are continuing as long as we have a path to victory, and I believe we are going to earn a majority of the delegates at the convention.”

Cruz also discussed the "extended process" that entailed his selection of Fiorina as his running mate should he earn the Republican nomination.

"We started out with a long list of over 40 people who were the best, were plausible candidates for vice president. We then narrowed that down to a list of 17, and we began doing vetting on those 17, predominantly relying on public records at that time," Cruz said. "And then from there, we narrowed it to five and ultimately spent a lot of time and consideration and prayer, and it became clear to Heidi and me and to the entire team that Carly brought the right package of knowledge and experience and judgment and character. And at the end of the day, it was a very easy choice."

He declined to name any of the others considered, calling it "not a kind thing to do."

"But look, it’s a lot of the people you would naturally think of—other candidates who were in the field, other elected leaders and prominent leaders, people who have earned respect and have been in the trenches battling for conservative principles," he said. "We initially cast a fairly wide net and then had a systematic process of narrowing it down."

Calling the selection of a running mate "one of the most solemn and serious decisions any presidential candidate has to make," Cruz said, "The most important job of a vice president is if the president gets hit by a truck to be prepared to step in immediately and follow through on the promises and the commitments that have been made, defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and keep us safe and secure."

"And that’s what we were looking for, and I think Carly fits the bill perfectly," he said.