A day after being booed off the Republican National Convention stage, Texas Sen.
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Another delegate asked Cruz about the pledge republican candidates were asked to sign about supporting the eventual candidate. I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. Thousands of supporters who were gathered in the convention hall roared their approval.
Cruz, the Tea Party darling who rose to Conservative Republican prominence circa 2012, faced a brutal political journey to be sure, but a bright one as a leading Conservative senator and possible future President. Our last moment to do something for our families and our country? Beyond building a wall on the southern border and ending the Johnson amendment his speech lacked specificity. But he did disavow America’s foreign policy posture under both Democrat and Republican presidents, criticizing “fifteen years of wars in the Middle East” and declaring that “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo”.
We’re in danger; from ISIS, from terrorism, from immigrants and from his competitor if she happens to win.
“This, in turn, will create millions of jobs”, he says. He would renegotiate the NAFTA trade accord linking the US, Canada and Mexico.
“You know, he doesn’t come out and endorse, which obviously was what everyone in the room was looking for him to do and quite frankly what would have been the right thing for him to do”, Trump said.
One delegate forcefully pointed a finger in another delegate’s face.
We never thought we’d say this, but well played shade Cruz. “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it”.
“We want politicians to stand on principle and then whenever they do, if it’s not the principle we like, we’re not so much into them standing on principle”, Kasich said.
During Trump’s speech, the NY billionaire spoke about how he would deal with crime, including recent attacks on police officers.
He did say he would not vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton.
In a direct appeal to Americans shaken by a summer of violence at home and around the world, Trump promised that if he takes office in January, “safety will be restored”. Hillary Clinton will have her hands full.
Others did not expect Cruz to endorse Trump because they said it would damage his appeal. “America was shocked to its core when our police officers in Dallas were brutally executed”.
Trump said he had an alternative to Clinton’s “I’m With Her” pledge: “My pledge reads ‘I’m with you-the American people”, he vowed.
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The prevailing narrative at the Cleveland convention has not been about Trump’s positions, but dominated instead by the failure of he party’s various factions to unite behind Trump. Daughter Ivanka will introduce Trump Thursday night and he will be joined by wife, Melania, and their son, Barron. I have seen him fight for his employees.
