Cruz first set the crowd off when he urged them to “vote your conscience”.
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz refused to endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the party’s convention yesterday, sparking an eruption of angry jeers from Trump supporters and shattering the facade of party unity that has been carefully built up in Cleveland this week.
As chants of “Endorse Trump” began to emanate, NY delegates stood and shouted feet from where the former presidential hopeful was delivering his speech.
“I think that showed why Ted Cruz can’t endorse Donald Trump”, he said. Cruz, one of Trump’s opponents during the primaries, was booed off the stage by delegates in attendance after speaking at the convention on Wednesday night.
But Cruz left it at that, without explicitly saying that he supports Trump, and then pivoted to a broad-ranging speech that reprised numerous themes from his own presidential campaign. Trump had nasty comments about Cruz’s wife Heidi’s appearance and tried to link Cruz’s Cuban-born dad Rafael to the JFK murder.
Thursday is the final night of the convention where Donald Trump will deliver his speech.
Walker, who dropped out of the presidential race early last Fall, emphasized the need to vote for Trump in order to keep presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton out of the White House. Trump upstaged Cruz as delegates booed the runner-up’s convention speech Wednesday night. Amid a chorus of boos from the state delegates, Cruz withheld his endorsement of Trump and called on voters to “vote your conscience” in November 2016 when the USA decides its next President.
Pence served up plenty of attack lines against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, but he leavened them with a dose of Midwestern folksiness that was reminiscent – yes, I’m going to say it – of Ronald Reagan. Well, now we finally know whether the junior Texas senator is willing to lend his name to Trump’s presidential efforts.
“He’s self-centered. It’s all about Ted Cruz”. “I thought it was classless, to tell you the truth”.
Cruz was ultimately booed off the stage. “But in my opinion, this one really is”, said Donna Williams, a delegate from Raleigh.
Fifteen of the 16 other people arrested were charged with a misdemeanour offence of inciting violence near the crowded Quicken Loans Arena, police said.
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“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles, others their principles for the sake of their party”, Cruz supporter Deborah Kelting of Houston said, quoting Winston Churchill.
