Ted Cruz is shrugging off suggestions that his non-compete arrangement with John Kasich in Indiana and other states is a political Hail Mary.

The Texas senator told reporters Monday in Borden, Indiana, that instead “there is desperation on the Trump side.”

He argued that Republican front-runner Donald Trump knows he won’t be able to get enough delegates to the Republican National Convention to win the party’s nomination and “is in real trouble.”

Cruz and Kasich are focusing on states where they can be successful, thus preventing Trump from clinching the nomination. Kasich is clearing a path for Cruz in Indiana and Cruz is doing the same for the Ohio governor in Oregon and New Mexico.

Cruz is focusing on Indiana’s May 3 primary, saying Trump’s campaign is “scared of Indiana.”

(AP)