“I asked to put out this statement because I did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump’s historic campaign for president and Melania’s handsome message and presentation”, McIver said.
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But in an interview to The New York Times, Mr. Trump said that the USA under his presidency might not come to the defence of some North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members if Russian Federation were to attack them. That word – conscience – was a meaningful choice of words, after the extended debate over the last few weeks about whether delegates could vote their conscience for someone other than Trump. One of them, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, called Cruz “totally selfish”.
At a rally with some 900 delegates, donors, GOP officials and supporters at a lakeside restaurant, Cruz never mentioned Trump’s name during an appearance billed as a “thank you” event for supporters.
He urged voters not to stay home on election day in November but did not say for whom they should vote. “Stand and speak, and vote your conscience”.
Mr Trump – who will address the fourth and final day of the conference – unexpectedly walked into the arena just as Mr Cruz was ending his remarks. Ted Cruz on Wednesday left open the possibility of a second White House run even as Donald Trump arrived in Cleveland to accept the GOP presidential nomination.
“In this election there is only one candidate who will uphold the constitution”, he said, and that is Trump-Pence.
Said Cruz: “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”.
Other Republicans, including those who had backed U.S. Sen. Trump and Pence shared the stage only briefly on Saturday as Pence publicly agreed to be Trump’s running mate, and their first televised interview together, on CBS’s “60 Minutes“, was not smooth.
At least the drama turned attention away from the Melania Trump plagiarism row.
Roe said of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort “we chat all the time”, adding Manafort was calling him to talk about some of the delegate maneuvering that took place at the convention in the past few days. Hailing from a state that, like OH, was once a stronghold of the Democrats but has turned into a swing state that went for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election but Mitt Romney in 2012, it otherwise has little presence on the national political stage.
“To me, Ted Cruz showed America what he really is – he’s a fraud, he’s a liar, he’s self-centered, he disqualified himself from ever being considered for President of the United States”, King said.
Goldman said he voted for Florida Sen.
Beyond that the two men have a history of animosity, having exchanged piercing insults in the primaries, when the businessman called the senator “Lyin’ Ted” and the senator branded Trump a “pathological liar” and “serial philanderer”.
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During the campaign for the party’s nomination, Trump insulted Cruz’s wife’s looks and suggested the Texan’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin just before the president was shot in Dallas in 1963.
