Ted Cruz’s decision to withhold a formal endorsement of presidential nominee Donald Trump. “And like each of you, I want to see the principles that our party believes prevail in November”.
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Taking a calmer approach was Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who accepted the vice presidential nomination just a half-hour after delegates booed Cruz off the stage of the Quicken Loans Arena. The parties broadcast their conventions to households across the United States to tell people how they would change their lives for the better, and to offer a glimpse as to how their party would govern.
The stunning political theater between the top two contenders in the Republican primary race blew open divisions in the party that the convention is created to heal, and suggested Cruz believes Trump will lose in November, CNN reported. “Yet when I’m asked what I think, I’m castigated for that”. “That will be another failed calculation, no matter whether Trump wins or loses in the fall”.
The conservative senator from Texas stood his ground today.
There’s only one reason Chris Christie thinks Ted Cruz’s speech is terrible and selfish – because he refused to worship at the altar of Donald Trump. “Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition and 43 million Americans are on food stamps”, he said.
He did not get the overwhelmingly positive reaction inside the hall that Sarah Palin received eight years ago, or even, I recall, as much love as Paul Ryan got in 2012.
Pro-Trump delegates were furious about his speech.
Trump led the crowd in a chant of “USA”, and the crowd called out “Build that wall” during applause breaks.
Cruz told the Texas delegation on Thursday morning he was not going to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton, and Kinzinger has also ruled out that option.
“People behind me (in the arena) were dropping cuss words left and right”.
Trump, daughter of her father’s first wife Ivana, has been a constant presence throughout the campaign, which has struggled among female voters. And in so doing, Cruz’s self-serving act will forever separate himself from his own party and leave him with no real support for any national or possibly even statewide election ever again.
After Trump’s comments, the White House said the United States has an “ironclad” commitment to mutual defense among the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies.
Texas Republicans capped a tumultuous week at their national convention watching a forceful address by Donald Trump, the presidential nominee whose defeat of favorite son Ted Cruz loomed large over the festivities in Cleveland. On the radio with Milwaukee talk show host Charlie Sykes on Thursday, Walker said that if Cruz wasn’t going to endorse Trump, he should have stayed away from the convention.
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The fact that Cruz is calculating that ill will can do for him what good feeling did for Obama-i.e. get him to the White House four years later-tells you everything you need to know right now about the differences between the two men and their two parties. “I don’t intend to say negative things about Donald Trump”, said Cruz. So on Wednesday he defied and angered the Trump leadership in Cleveland.
