Trump’s threat to “spill the beans” on Heidi Cruz, and his suggestion that Heidi is less than attractive was beyond the pale. She’s supposed to unite all the different voices and factions in the state. Ted Cruz of Texas. “He’s not earned my vote”, he said, complaining that Trump had personally smeared his rivals during the primary and has not apologized for his tactics. During that time, we should be holding Trump’s feet to the fire to be the kind of President who will restore America once more as a Constitutional Republic.
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“He’ll come and endorse because he has no choice, but I don’t want his endorsement”, Trump added.
“In the end, each individual has a duty to the nation that transcends the duty to yourself, and that’s where I think he failed”, Black told CNN.
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, Cruz said as the crowd, which had been hostile toward him, burst out in cheers.
In fact, the Cruz speech was far more gracious than it had to be. He says Hillary Clinton is a crooked liar and needs to be in prison. Goldstone said he compared, by eye, the photo of the unidentified man in the picture with Oswald with a passport photo of a young Rafael Cruz, and concluded “They look pretty close”.
“It would have been a betrayal to all of us who supported Ted Cruz who felt just as abused and bullied by Trump”, McCrary said. “He didn’t quite finish it off at least to the satisfaction of most of the people in the arena”.
Cruz’s speech energized a mixed Virginia Delegation to rally behind Donald Trump.
“When he said in his speech that you could vote your conscience as long as it was for somebody who supported the Constitution, that by definition meant you’re not talking about Hillary Clinton”, Gingrich told CNN.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, helped lead a chaotic but unsuccessful fight on the convention floor Monday to force a protest vote against Trump. A day later, the Utah delegation saw their votes go to Trump because of a state party rule.
Addressing supporters Friday morning in Cleveland, Trump insisted he does not want Cruz’s endorsement and re-litigated two of their nastiest clashes from the primaries, both involving members of the Texas senator’s family.
“We have another 115 days to figure it out”.
He is the example of what Ted Cruz’s speech did to the Virginia delegation Thursday as many from the commonwealth left angry when Cruz’s actions exposed a lingering divide.
“There will be a lot of cameras on our section tonight”. “I think it was weak”.
Ted Cruz couldn’t even make it through thanking his own supporters without being overshadowed by Donald Trump.
“This is Trump’s convention”.
If that occasionally ruffles the feathers of nominee or president Trump, so be it. “That is embarrassing”, he said.
Alternate delegate Sue Lynch, a Republican activist from La Crosse County, said Cruz embarrassed the party and should have honored the pledge he made as a candidate to endorse the ticket.
“He didn’t go to bed”, Roe said.
“And (we’ll) see how he conducts the campaign”.
Elements of the speech were still under discussion moments before Cruz stepped on stage – ahead of schedule, to boot. “It was surreal” and shows the divisions within the party.
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“He gave a wonderful speech, and people are looking at it in such pettiness”, he said. “They’re just begging Trump to give them that reason”.
