Americans are furious-rightly so-at a political establishment that cynically breaks its promises and ignores the will of the people.
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While Cruz would not say if he will vote for Trump, he also insisted he will never cast a vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Half of those defecting say they plan to vote for Trump and half say they plan to vote for neither. Cruz, did not endorse Trump during his remarks to the convention.
The event was boycotted by many big-name establishment Republicans, such as 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and members of the Bush family that gave the party its last two presidents.
Trump said he will overhaul tax laws and energy rules, get rid of regulations and decrease taxes, while offering few specifics.
In his speech, Trump portrayed himself as a fresh alternative to traditional politicians, willing to consider new approaches to vexing problems and help working-class people who may feel abandoned.
“America is far less safe – and the world is far less stable – than when (US President Barack) Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America’s foreign policy”.
Heading out with Mike Pence to battle Hillary Clinton, Trump warned she would make America less safe and less prosperous. He blamed her for the rise of IS militants and blasted her willingness to accept thousands of Syrian refugees.
Ted Cruz speaks at the Republican Party National Convention in Cleveland.
The Texan senator finished a distant second to Mr Trump in the race for the nomination after a bitter and personal campaign, and mentioned the nominee only once in his speech at the national convention – and that was to congratulate him on winning the nomination.
“All right, that was pretty well-orchestrated”, he said.
Some of the delegates continued to applaud Cruz’s talking points, but others broke into cheers of “USA, USA”, after one of the delegates, Geraldine Sam of Lamarque, Texas, demanded to know why Cruz pledged to support the eventual nominee, but now refuses to do so. Mr. Cruz will leave Cleveland weaker than when he arrived and may find it hard to recover unless Mr. Trump loses in November in a landslide. Because Ted Cruz has decided that he knows better?
“That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, that I’m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father”, Cruz said.
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, he said.
On Wednesday those doubts were laid bare when his primary rival Ted Cruz pointedly refused to endorse him. At another, a woman told Cruz that they had met years ago and that she was merely holding him accountable – as he had told her then that she must.
Falwell, an influential evangelical voice who gave Trump his blessing early on, praised Trump as “America’s blue-collar billionaire”.
“I recognize there are some folks here who are not my friends”. And when he said, “We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens”, the chants of “U-S-A!” If his bet is that Trump is going to lose big and becomes an embarrassing memory for the GOP, that’s what he’s betting he’ll be remembered for.
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“Even though I disagree with the tactics and the divisive rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement, I do understand that hopelessness and lack of opportunity breeds this type of desperation”, Burns said, explaining what he believes is responsible for the current unrest in the country after police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, along with the deaths of young black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. The survey took place from July 18 to July 22, the week of the Republican National Convention.
