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Ted Cruz is hoping for a win in his home state of Texas on Super Tuesday. | AP Photo Cruz's U.S. territories consultant backs Trump

Ted Cruz's man in the U.S. territories has decided to support Donald Trump, he told POLITICO on Sunday.

Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based GOP operative who spent several weeks organizing the U.S. territories for Cruz, including Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, said he is supporting Trump because he sees him as more electable.

"I respect Sen. Cruz immensely, I just believe at this point, Mr. Trump is better-positioned, because of his stance on trade, to put Democrats on the defensive in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and ensure that Republicans win again," he said.

Those remarks come as Cruz and the rest of the GOP field grapple with a front-runner who appears to be putting potentially insurmountable distance between himself and his rivals. Earlier Sunday, Trump notched the support of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, whom Cruz had counted as an ally.

Lennox, whose work with the Cruz campaign didn't extend beyond the territorial organizing, doesn't have plans for an official role with the Trump campaign, but said he would aim to help Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference later this week, as well as in Michigan.

"I'm not in it for titles or a job. I'm it in to win -- something Republicans haven't been too good at for a while," he wrote in an email.

A Cruz source said Lennox was hired "for a project that was completed at the end of the summer and hasn't been with us since."

The campaign is still competing in the U.S. territories as they hunt for delegates; on Friday the campaign announced campaign chairmen in each of the five territories.