“I am greatly honored by the endorsement of Senator Cruz”.
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Being loyal to his party, Cruz said he has moral obligation to support any Republication nominee. “And I intend to keep my word”, Cruz said. Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump for president on Friday.
The decision marks a politically risky move for Cruz, who pointedly refused to endorse Trump during a prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention in July. CNN has learned that this vote of confidence coming from Cruz is the result of communications between Cruz and Mike Pence, Trump’s vice president running mate.
But facing intensifying political pressure to back Trump, Cruz said he would cast a vote for Trump, while stopping short of an official endorsement in a statement posted Friday on Facebook.
Despite their many angry battles, Ted Cruz said Friday he will vote for Donald Trump in order to help deny the presidency to Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Let’s also not forget that Trump also attacked Cruz’s wife and father.
The question of whether Cruz, the Republican primary’s second-place finisher, would cast a ballot for the party’s nominee had been in question, particularly after he gave a fiery speech at the Republican National Convention in July.
“This endorsement will not convince #NeverTrump folks to change our minds about The Donald”, he continued, “but we may well be forced to reconsider our support for Sen”.
Cruz is supporting Trump because he thinks he will need Trump voters to win the Republican nomination in 2020.
Cruz fired back at Trump at a May 3 press conference as Republican voters in IN went to the polls. Cruz himself has called Trump a “sniveling coward” and a “pathological liar”, among other insults.
“My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that”.
Polls have since suggested that Cruz’s popularity was slipping nationally and back home in Texas, where he could face a primary challenger for re-election in 2018.
During the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, both Cruz and Trump derided as amnesty any efforts to allow 11 million unauthorized immigrants to remain in the U.S. Both spoke at a September 2015 rally at the U.S. Capitol in opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says he never would have supported someone who treated his father the way Trump treated Sen.
But Cruz’s past aversion to endorsing Trump was not unjustified.
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In his Facebook post, however, Cruz tried to make his case by highlighting six key policy differences between Trump and Clinton, namely immigration and energy.
