Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, points toward Republican vice presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence after Pence’s acceptance speech during the third day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016.
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“We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us behind shared values”, Cruz said, as the last five minutes of his speech were peppered with catcalls and boos from the crowd, which literally booed him off the stage.
“Ted Cruz said you can vote your conscience for anyone who will uphold the Constitution”.
Trump himself sent the drama needle tipping into the red by striding into the arena shortly before Cruz finished speaking, calmly surveying the remarkable scene of delegates thrown into turmoil by the Texan’s remarks, and who hounded him off the stage.
The crowd quickly turned on Cruz Wednesday night after he refused to endorse GOP nominee Donald Trump.
On Twitter, Trump exulted in how the delegates booed Cruz and chanted, “Vote for Trump!” and “Keep your pledge!”
Recalling the life of one of the Dallas police officers killed earlier this month, Cruz said the nation owes much to the children of “fallen heroes” who have sacrificed all.
Interrupted by chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump”, Cruz paused and said with a smile, “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”.
Still, perhaps Cruz would find his way to throwing his support behind Trump, as Ryan himself did?
He presented Trump as the quintessential political outsider more in tune with an American electorate seeking change than Clinton, a career politician who has deep ties to the Washington establishment.
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“At the very moment when America is crying out for something new and different, the other party has answered with a stale agenda and the most predictable of names”, he said, adding the Democratic Party had nominated “someone who represents everything this country is exhausted of”.
Donald Trump looked unimpressed as he stood at the back of the arena with his family.
When New York’s primary rolled around on April 19, Cruz didn’t win a single delegate.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke after Cruz and tried to give him some cover. People, however, might still be talking about Ted Cruz getting booed off the stage for not endorsing Trump, he said. Trump allies were infuriated, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said Cruz’s decision was “totally selfish”. Before dropping out of the race, Cruz shared his true feelings about Trump, calling him a “pathological liar”, “amoral”, a “serial philanderer” and a “narcissist”.
“I don’t know what the future is going to hold”.
He hammered Clinton over her foreign policy record, accusing her of letting Americans die in Benghazi, and of squandering the gains of the troop surge in Iraq by backing the Obama administration’s troop withdrawals and of being unfit for the challenges of a world that is “spinning out of control”.
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Clinton said the first day of the Republican gathering had been “surreal”, comparing it to the classic fantasy film “Wizard of Oz”. McIver said she wrote down the passages and later included them in the speech.
