“I’m not going to get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I’ll give you this response: I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, Cruz said at a meeting where he faced sharp questions from the Texas delegation in Cleveland. Pence and his family, along with Trump’s adult children, greeted the billionaire as his helicopter landed by Cleveland’s picturesque lakefront.
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Before speaking at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, the Texas senator and 2016 GOP primary runner-up had gathered over 1,200 of his volunteers and backers at a restaurant on a dock along the Cleveland waterfront, firing them up as though he was back at a campaign rally.
“We do not need Ted Cruz to take the White House”, he said.
John Kasich, governor of OH, which is hosting the convention, continued to stay away and his state’s delegates cheered every vote he picked up during the roll-call on the floor.
Donald Trump, as no one can forget was one of the loudest and most prominent person pushing the nonsense that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, professing to have sent investigators to Hawaii who “cannot believe what they’re finding”. “Lock her up!” Failed Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson went so far as to associate Clinton with Lucifer. Gohmert said that that said something good about Trump.
Even those who showed up have seemed noticeably lacking in enthusiasm.
Trump will speak in prime time. And it breathed new life into story now its third day.
“You know, he’s a man known for his large personality, a colorful style, and lots of charisma, and so, well, I guess he was looking for someone to balance the ticket”, Pence said. Trump tweeted two days after the speech, after a top aide urged the media move on from the story on Wednesday morning.
She wrote that she is an in-house speechwriter at the Trump Organization.
Trump’s campaign has struggled to get the NY billionaire’s nominating convention on track, and Cruz on Wednesday provided the latest derailment with his refusal to formally endorse Trump. “What she did is use words that are common words”. “That you treat people with respect”.
Trump had stayed silent throughout Tuesday after the speech Monday night.
Despite the unmistakable similarities to remarks given by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic convention, the Trump campaign initially denied any wrongdoing, then made a tacit admission before attempting to insulate Melania, adding to a picture of a campaign in chaos.
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Cruz also supported Trump’s idea that a wall should be built on the U.S. border with Mexico in order to control immigration.
