Counting on Pence Talk to people on Capitol Hill about Trump’s running mate, IN governor and former congressman Mike Pence, and they are not exactly complimentary.
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The RNC and the Trump Campaign expressed shock and outrage – they feigned indignation.
In a standing room-only Texas GOP delegation breakfast Thursday morning, Cruz defended his refusal to endorse the GOP nominee Wednesday evening.
After Wednesday night, Cruz remerged Thursday morning to bring the Texas delegation to its feet at a downtown Cleveland hotel ballroom when he said he could have “turned tail and run, but that ain’t going to happen”.
Cruz said he will be watching and listening but won’t sit down, shut up, support the team. 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”. That including tweeting an unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife and alleging without any firm basis that Cruz’s father, Rafael, was involved in the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Cruz insisted he could not support anyone who wages personal attacks against his wife, Heidi. Should Clinton win the White House, he’ll be hated by her and the Democrats. He should have held Cruz to his standard non-disclosure rule: Don’t disclose who I am.
Peter King, a New York Republican Congressman, ripped into Cruz after the speech.
Trump has been a presence every night of the convention. The campaign saw his remarks ahead of time and still wanted him to speak. He’ll be introduced by his daughter, Ivanka.
But Trump said later on Twitter that Cruz’s lack of an endorsement was “no big deal!”
Poised and polished, Ivanka is considered the campaign’s “secret weapon”. “She thought it was very unfair to Melania”.
And Cruz unpacked the implicit meaning of his much-maligned phrase: “Vote your conscience”. “Ted Cruz said you can vote your conscience for anyone who can uphold the Constitution”. There will surely be rousing speeches by Reince Priebus, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump and another guy.
“If we go to November and the dominant word the voters hear is Trump, or for that matter if the dominant word is Hillary or email server, we’re gonna lose”, Cruz said. In fact, as ridiculous as this may seem to Americans who are already exhausted of the 2016 presidential race, there is little doubt that Republican jostling well underway – in the 2020 race.
The convention has been focused on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton rather than any conservative principle. The illness causes vomiting and diarrhoea, and spreads explosively through people in confined places, leading one observer here in Cleveland to note that this convention is for some “literally a sh*t show”. He joked that Trump is charismatic and must have been looking for balance in choosing him.
The newly crowned Republican nominee had hoped for a triumphant turn at the podium, but he was instead plagued by fresh political and policy headaches: His most tenacious primary rival, Sen. Trump’s son Eric called it “classless”.
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Questions about plagiarism hung over the opening days of the GOP convention, overshadowing Mrs. Trump’s performance, which had enthralled the convention delegates.
