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“Did I just endorse, Wolf?” Idaho Sen. Jim Risch asked CNN's Wolf Blitzer. | AP Photo Sen. Jim Risch isn't sure if he just endorsed Ted Cruz

Idaho Sen. Jim Risch endorsed Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign on Wednesday — depending on your definition of the term.

Risch said he wouldn’t support Republican front-runner Donald Trump and framed Cruz as the only candidate he could support. “Obviously, [John] Kasich is so far behind that it’s impossible really for him to get the numbers, so by process of elimination that gets you to Ted Cruz,” Risch told CNN. “At this point, there’s no choice.”

Anchor Wolf Blitzer said Risch is the third senator to endorse Cruz, joining his colleagues Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee.

“Did I just endorse, Wolf?” Risch asked.

“I don’t know. You sort of said I prefer him over the other two,” Blitzer responded, a point that Risch affirmed. “That sounds like an endorsement, doesn’t it?”

“I guess it depends on your definition.”

Risch cited Trump’s historicall high unfavorability numbers and polling that suggests he would lose the general election to Hillary Clinton as reasons for backing Cruz, despite the problems the Texas senator has created in Congress.

“Well, people have different ways of accomplishing things that they want to accomplish. Sometimes it’s done with a smile and people are all happy and the end of the day, and sometimes it’s not,” he said.