A day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump pivoted back to the GOP primaries on Friday, choosing to re-litigate a pair of monthsold battles with rival Ted Cruz.
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And Trump, speaking the end of a week dedicated to unifying the party, once again revived the conspiracy theory published in the National Enquirer that linked Cruz’s father to John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald – an accusation that has no evidence behind it. That’s not a democracy, my friends!’ she proclaimed at a rally in Tampa, Florida.
“I think it was very bad”, Christie said.
“I will not malign, I will not insult, this is not a game”. “The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction overseas – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”. “We have not abandoned who we are in this country. No, sir, I do not believe that is correct”. He was scripted, self-contained and made no mention of Ted Cruz. Just yesterday, aides from the Clinton camp read through all of Donald Trump’s 5,500 lawsuits on Facebook Live for four hours. Ted Cruz, was booed as he told the Republican faithful to “vote their conscience”. I knew his speech. they gave me his speech.
“I think Senator Cruz is always looking for a plausible out”, Tillis said in an interview on The Tyler Cralle Show, “What he did was a mistake”. “I can understand his reluctance to endorse”. The jeers came about because he wouldn?t formally endorse Donald Trump during his speech.
On Thursday morning, a defiant Cruz continued to ratchet up his war against Trump, declaring that he would not grovel “like a servile puppy.” On Tuesday, the delegation saw their votes go to Trump, not Cruz, because of a state party rule. I feel so badly.
The ugly and highly personal feud between the top two finishers in the Republican primaries, dormant since Cruz ended his campaign in early May, reignited in dramatic fashion Wednesday at a convention meant to heal the bruised party. He predicted that Texans won’t forget Cruz turning his back on the party’s nominee.
Bernie Sanders said on Twitter, ‘Maybe he doesn’t understand that a president has to work with Congress’.
“I don’t think he speaks for working families who would be devastated by his reckless policies”.
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Eric Trump, the candidate’s son, called Cruz’s speech “classless”. What happened, you know somebody got booed the hell out of a place by thousands and thousands of people. Autumn Stoff. “I thought it was extraordinary”.
