Cruz said on Thursday that he gave Trump’s team the controversial speech he delivered on Wednesday night in Cleveland and spoke directly to Trump this week, saying no endorsement was coming.
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“She is showing the softer side” of Trump, said Chris Herrod, state director for Ted Cruz in Utah. Asked specifically about Cruz’s non-endorsement of Trump, Negron said, “I’m not the arbiter of speaker decisions or delegate responses”.
“They all signed the pledge Everyone knew about the pledges”, campaign chair Paul Manafort told reporters Thursday morning, referring to a primary pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee. “I never thought I would say these words, but Ted Cruz was right”.
“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”, Mr Cruz said. Trump’s only reference to the bruising nominating process came toward the end of his speech, when he briefly deviated from his prepared remarks to comment on those who said he had no chance of becoming the nominee: “Oh, we love defeating those people, don’t we?”
“When you have my father in your corner, you will never again have to worry about being let down”, Ivanka Trump told the American people in her speech.
She also tore into Trump for claiming he “alone” can fix the nation’s problems, calling his vision “dark and divisive”. At 75 minutes long, Trump’s acceptance speech is the longest nomination speech since Bill Clinton clocked in at 64 minutes in 1996, according to CSPAN.
“All I did was point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and insane Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast”, the GOP nominee said.
A lot has happened since then – not the least of which, her husband, Donald Trump, became the party’s official nominee for president. “I think it will help some of the healing”. What they’ve done is in the history books, he said. “I can understand his reluctance to endorse”.
“I will be your voice”, Trump said.
Donald Trump officially accepted the GOP nomination as an estimated 125,000 balloons and confetti fell onto delegates at the Quicken Loans Arena, with “All Right Now” by the band Free blasting.
Some may think Trump’s resurrecting the Cruz controversy after it had died down is emblematic of the candidate’s egoism.
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Susan Hutchison, chair of the Washington state delegation, said she confronted Mr Cruz after his speech and called him a “traitor to the party”. “As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect – the respect that we deserve”.
