Ted Cruz said a lot during his speech on the third night of the Republican National Convention.
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“I wouldn’t do this, except that he endorsed this guy Cruz, and Cruz would be a awful president”, Trump told Wisconsin Republicans at the time. It seems nearly certain now that Cruz plans to run again, regardless of who wins in November.
Demonstrators converged on one of the main entry points to the Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday afternoon, shouting slogans as police cleared a corridor for delegates trying to reach the convention.
Interrupted by chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump”, Cruz paused and said with a smile, “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”. The founder said they are a nonpartisan group.
Thanking his supporters more than two months after he withdrew from the primaries – his White House bid felled by Trump – the Texas senator was speaking in an open-air restaurant on Lake Erie a few miles (kilometers) from the site where Republicans are meeting to crown Trump the party’s candidate for president.
Garrett Mason of Lisbon Falls, the Maine Senate’s majority leader, supported Cruz, but now stands fully behind Trump as the party’s nominee. Patton, who is black, said she was proud to support Trump “not just in spite of the color of my skin, but in fact because of the color of my skin”.
Cruz was booed Wednesday by some delegates as he left the stage at the convention center. Nor did he ask his supporters, hundreds of whom encouraged him to run for president in four years at an event on Wednesday afternoon, to vote for the newly minted Republican nominee.
Wednesday afternoon, Pence and his family, along with Trump’s adult children, greeted the billionaire as his helicopter landed by Cleveland’s picturesque lakefront. He touched down in a helicopter on a grassy field, an action movie soundtrack blaring from the speakers on the ground.
Controversy over Melania Trump’s Monday evening speech still hung over the convention. His surrogates had spent large parts of the week sparring with OH governor John Kasich, another former opponent.
A Trump supporter and a Trump opponent square off outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 20, 2016.
“It’s incredibly exciting that he is the party’s nominee”, Willette said of Trump.
“We deserve an immigration system that puts America first”.
Pence compared Trump to Ronald Reagan, who he said “never lost the common touch”. And if they feel comfortable, voting for Donald Trump.
The same conclusion prevails among many Republican delegates, regardless of race and ethnicity.
In a statement, the band later called Trump “a grotesque”.
As large and challenging as political conventions are, they pale in comparison with the scope of a president’s responsibilities, and sloppiness in Cleveland could hint at what a Trump presidency could look like.
When the helicopter landed, Trump stepped off, walked out and spoke for less than a minute. Given what Cruz later did, he may wish he had carried on a bit more.
Americans now “live in a world where so many others have had their lives destroyed by evil, in places like Orlando and Paris and Nice and Baton Rouge”, Cruz said. But the text itself was notable in many ways. Cast aside anger for love.
But in the end it was, of course, what he didn’t do that mattered.
He issued no such endorsement, merely imploring conservatives “not to stay home in November”.
“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me “that bitch” in his song?”
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“This was my mistake, and I feel awful for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama”. You heard everybody booing him.
