Ivanka missed her one chance to date to vote for her father: she had not changed her party registration from Democrat to Republican in time to cast a ballot in the April 19 NY primary election.
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said in an email response to questions about Cruz: “The Republican convention should not be used as a platform for any Republican leader to put their personal political ambitions ahead of our shared goal of uniting our party to defeat Hillary Clinton and move America in new, more prosperous direction”.
“Which we can solve – we have to solve it”, he said.
And his former White House rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, was booed when he dramatically refused to endorse him from the convention stage.
It came after a roller-coaster convention that began with a public feud with the popular Republican governor of OH, continued with a mismanaged speaking schedule that pushed keynote speakers past prime time and ended with the revelation that portions of Melania Trump’s speech had been lifted verbatim from Michelle Obama in 2008.
Thursday night, an unsmiling Donald Trump struck a martial tone in accepting the Republican presidential nomination, vowing to restore security to an America he sees as surrounded by danger.
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. He now trails Clinton, who is seeking to become the first woman elected US president, in most opinion polls ahead of the November 8 election.
Commanding the prime-time stage, Cruz mentioned Trump only once, congratulating him for winning the nomination but coming no closer than that to rallying behind him. Trump allies were furious. One of them, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, called Cruz “totally selfish”.
That “talk” was perhaps the most dramatic moment of the GOP’s four-day convention.
“People who work hard but no longer have a voice”. He said he would avoid multinational trade deals but instead pursue agreements with individual countries. “Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”, he said of her legacy. “Harry Truman would be ashamed”, Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement.
“We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities”, he said.
The couple both take part in the Trump campaign’s “family meeting” each Monday morning, helping make decisions about spending and strategy, according to a source familiar with the meetings.
But Cruz’s appearance left the arena unsettled for the night’s closing speakers.
A Who’s Who of GOP elders attended to support Trump, with the exception only of its two living ex-Presidents, the last two presidential nominees and many of Trump’s primary opponents, including the governor of the state where the event was taking place.
“I’ll be watching and listening”, Cruz said, but added: “I won’t sit down, shut up, support the team”. “In this election there is only one candidate who will uphold the Constitution”.
But now that Donald Trump has the nomination, Ehlen is upset that Cruz is opting against an endorsement.
Beyond that the two men have a history of animosity.
The Trump campaign’s ham-fisted response – denying allegations of plagiarism, dismissing them as a media-generated controversy, then tacit admission, then having a speechwriter own up – only fuelled the scandal and made Team Trump look inept.
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He then ridiculed the upcoming Democratic National Convention, saying “nobody’s gonna watch this next convention”.
