“For him to walk off that stage without endorsing Donald Trump, he thought it was a mic drop and instead it was a big middle finger to this entire convention”.
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Doucette said Cruz gave a “very inspirational speech but didn’t come through in the end”.
Her campaign tweeted “vote your conscience”, and included a link to her website.
Cruz drew boos from the crowd at the Quicken Loans Arena when he told the packed house to “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”. Trump also took jabs at the appearance of Cruz’s wife, Goldman Sachs executive Heidi Cruz, and the Texas senator responded that Trump is a “sniveling coward” and later “a pathological liar”. His daughter Ivanka and other members of the Trump party turned their backs on Cruz to stand and applaud Trump, who sat down in the front row of his VIP box to watch his son Eric deliver the next speech.
Gov. Chris Christie spoke to MSNBC about Cruz’ performance, and said that “it was an terrible, selfish speech by someone who tonight… showed everybody why he has richly earned the reputation that he has on Capitol Hill”. We’re going to see balloons dropping.
“Vote for the one candidate who does not need this job”, he said.
He said he’d put aside his own ill will and reluctantly come to the convention and speak in support many of Trump’s policies, while criticizing his opponent Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that he never got an apology for the things Trump did.
Cruz, who as a Tea Party conservative in the U.S. Senate spearheaded tactics that led to a government shutdown over the federal budget, called the NY real estate developer a “serial philanderer” and a “narcissist” during the campaign.
Cruz was alluding to the bitter final weeks of the primary fight, when Trump essentially declared Heidi Cruz unattractive on Twitter and floated a conspiracy theory that Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, was complicit in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “People that probably four years from now or eight years from now would have looked at him as being the next guy, he lost them”.
As the crowd roared on its feet, she added: “Tonight”. McIver said she wrote down the passages and later included them in the speech. “I am going to be listening how he and his campaign will conduct themselves every day from now until November”.
“For a lot of people, elections don’t even begin until after Labor Day”, he said.
Manafort told NBC’s Today on Thursday that Cruz “understood what the responsibilities are, someone in his position”.
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Yeah, it’s obvious Ted hasn’t forgotten or forgiven Donald for threatening to “spill the beans” on Heidi Cruz, 43, after an Anti-Trump SuperPAC posted an political ad featuring Donald’s wife, Melania Trump, 46. “If they can’t, vote for someone they can believe in. He left the door open to more”.
