US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, in a last-ditch bid to slow front-runner Donald Trump's momentum, has named former business executive Carly Fiorina to be his vice presidential running mate if he wins the nomination.
Fiorina, 61, dropped her own White House bid in February after a lacklustre seventh-place finish in New Hampshire's
first-in-the-nation primary.
Cruz's unusually early announcement of a running mate today appears to be a bid to recover from Tuesday's losses, which moved Trump closer to the 1237 delegates he needs to win the nomination at the July 18-21 Republican convention in Cleveland.
The choice of Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive, could help Cruz win female voters and the June 7 primary in California, where Fiorina won the Republican primary for the US Senate in 2010.
