Trump knew what Cruz was going to say, let him speak anyway

The disorder provided fresh reminders of the fissures that remain.

Many wondered whether Cruz would officially endorse Trump – the Texas senator was the Republican nominee’s last serious contender to drop from the primary race. “It’s time to come together and fight for a new direction in America”. McIver said she offered her resignation over the incident, but Trump rejected it. When the crowd broke into chants of “We Want Trump”, Cruz simply paused and gave a nod to Trump’s home state. Stand and speak, and vote your conscience.

“Vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution”, Cruz said.

Earlier in the evening, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sought to fix a rift when Texas Sen.

Addressing his father’s brash comments, he said a President Trump would be one “who speaks his mind, and not just when it behooves him to do so; who doesn’t have to run a focus group or use data analytics to be able to form a simple opinion”.

The responses came after a top Donald Trump aide spent the morning urging the media to move on from the story. He said he had gotten to know Trump and knew he cared about helping Americans. There are 2,472 delegates attending, selected at state and congressional district conventions, and representing each USA state and territory.

Trump’s campaign had hoped that by the convention’s end, voters would look past the gathering’s rough start, including the plagiarism charge involving Melania Trump’s opening address.

So far, many convention speakers have devoted more time to denouncing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton than talking about Trump. “I would never say that, but these are common phrases that were used over and over again”. He joked that Trump is charismatic and must have been looking for balance in choosing him.

That was Texas Sen.

“The time for fighting each other is over”.

Unlike the celebrity businessman, Pence is an experienced politician, favorite of conservatives and ally of party leaders.

It also distracted from an event created to unify Republicans behind the billionaire businessman, while introducing his family to the nation.

Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to comment on the swirling controversy, saying: “Good news is Melania’s speech got more publicity than any in the history of politics especially if you believe that all press is good press!”.

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But Ms. Trump made a decision to revise it, and at one point she turned to a trusted hand: Meredith McIver, a New York City-based former ballet dancer and English major who has worked on some of Mr. Trump’s books, including “Think Like a Billionaire”. Ted Cruz Wednesday night after he failed to endorse presidential nominee Donald Trump during his convention speech. But the crowd at Quicken Loans Arena felt differently. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18.