New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who spoke at the convention Tuesday night, ripped into Cruz, calling his action “totally selfish” NJ.com reported.
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“I think he managed to unite more Republicans behind Trump because what he did was the equivalent of going into someone’s living room, breaking all the furniture and then stealing food from the refrigerator before running out”, Wallace told the “Today” show.
Cruz stood on stage with the presidential candidates during the primary and pledged to vote for the Republican nominee.
The most important speech of his presidential campaign will bring down the balloons Thursday night on a convention marked by divided loyalties and unwanted distractions. Ted Cruz was roundly booed after failing to endorse Trump during an address to the Republican National Convention – a jab from the Texas lawmaker at the real estate mogul, who tormented him as “Lyin’ Ted” during the primary.
He refused to say whether he would vote for Trump, who had maligned Cruz’s wife for her physical appearance and had suggested that his father was linked to late President John F. Kennedy’s assassin.
At least one person in the audience believed Cruz should look beyond insults on the primary campaign trail and shouted at him: “This is politics”. I don’t know all the inner workings behind the scenes, but I would be shocked if they didn’t a preview of that speech before it was given.
“I think you’re gonna hear probably the problems”, Trump said. He added that he doesn’t plan to vote for Clinton but he won’t pledge to vote for Trump. Ted Cruz rejected calls to endorse the GOP ticket. “No big deal!” Trump tweeted about the incident again on Thursday morning, referencing Cruz’s reverence for the Constitution and claiming a victory by Democrats would lead to a Supreme Court that would “destroy us all”.
Cruz acknowledged that his decision was at least partly personal, saying, “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”.
It wasn’t so much about Donald Trump, Cruz argued, but about the need to defend the United States of America.
“I am not a candidate in this race”, he said. “Cruz didn’t get the memo”, former Texas Gov.
Cruz also insisted his remarks were meant to help Trump defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
His speech, he said, was an “outline to Trump and his campaign on how to win”.
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But at the more private event, Duffy, of Wisconsin, was striking a much different tone, speaking candidly about how hard it is to hold your nose and vote for Trump. “If you’re going to go to a convention, you either go to support, or you just don’t go at all”.
