“Ted Cruz said you can vote your conscience for anyone who will uphold the constitution”, he said.
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Susan Hutchison, chair of the Washington delegation, said she confronted Cruz after his speech and called him a ‘traitor to the party’.
When asked how she would respond if Cruz made another run in the future, Pellegrino said, “He will never have my support”. Contrast that with Richard Nixon, who knows Goldwater is going to lose-in this case, I don’t think Trump is going to lose-but he goes to the convention, introduces Goldwater, endorses him, campaigns for him in 38 states.
Less than 12 hours after he was booed for not endorsing GOP nominee Donald Trump during his late-night speech before the Republican National Convention, Texas Sen.
Trump, daughter of her father’s first wife Ivana, has been a constant presence throughout the campaign, which has struggled among female voters.
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.
Manafort told NBC’s “Today” on Thursday morning that Cruz “understood what the responsibilities are, someone in his position”.
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Jeers erupted from Trump supporters in the crowd, and Cruz’s wife, Heidi, was escorted out by security amid the shouting.
Cruz’ actions drew condemnation from Republicans, who questioned whether the senator had torpedoed his political future. “Vote your conscience”, he declared.
“We’re fighting, not for one particular candidate or campaign, but because each of you wants to be able to tell your kids that we did our best for their future and our country”, Cruz said.
The only element that appears to have completely united all the party’s disparate factions has been their determination to defeat Clinton, whom he targeted with fierce denunciations in his July 21 speech. When the speech ended-without an endorsement-the hall erupted in boos and Cruz’s wife had to be hustled out to protect her from angry delegates.
LISA DESJARDINS: During the primaries, Trump had referred to Cruz as lyin’ Ted and attacked his family members.
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Even delegates from Texas, Cruz’s home state, were stunned. “He needed to toughen up like every other Republican loser of any nomination battle in the last 100 years since Abraham Lincoln and just suck it up, be a man and back the nominee that he was beaten by, fair and square”. “It was a really good speech, it was really intellectual, he was intelligent, he was well-spoken, but New Yorkers are smart and we realised when he was winding down his speech that he wasn’t going to endorse Donald and we think he’s a fool”. Ted Cruz wasn’t backing down.
