During the campaign for the party’s nomination, Trump insulted Cruz’s wife’s looks and suggested the Texan’s father was with John F Kennedy’s assassin just before the president was shot in Dallas in 1963. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walks from the podium after speaking during the Republican National Convention, Wednesday, July 20, 2016, in Cleveland. He said Cruz did not honor the pledge that Republican primary candidates had made to support the eventual nominee. “And it’s his job to keep his word”, he said.
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Susan Hutchison, chair of the Washington delegation to the convention, said she confronted Cruz after his speech and called him a “traitor to the party”.
“I was very disappointed that he did not endorse Trump”, Gary Inmon, who lives near San Antonio, said.
In response to a question about potential Russian aggression towards the Baltic states, Trump told the newspaper in an interview that if Moscow attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us”. Ted Cruz stubbornly defended his refusal to endorse Donald Trump, insisting he is not a “servile puppy dog” who would back anyone who personally attacks his family. Still, Gingrich said he wasn’t surprised by the boos. “So to paraphrase Ted Cruz, if you want to protect the Constitution this fall, there’s only one possible way and that’s to vote the Trump-Pence ticket”, he said. He estimated that about a third of their supporters are now “all-in for Trump, a third are like, ‘Gosh, I wish I didn’t have to, but I can’t stand Hillary, ‘ and a third are probably like, ‘I’m just going to wait and see how the campaign goes'”.
Pence said he never thought he’d be standing on the stage at his party’s national convention.
CLEVELAND (AP) – Undercutting calls for Republican unity, Texas Sen. It was an absolute refusal to support the rival who beat Cruz by almost 1,000 delegates. “He made so many other good points that I think are unfortunately overshadowed now”. “And those are all things that we don’t have a great sense about beyond platitudes about ‘making America great again'”. Eventually, he conceded, “It was the year of the unexpected”. Trump sparked rumors about Cruz’s wife and father.
In indicting both Obama and Clinton as emblematic of the failed establishment, Cruz said the Democrats have failed to address terrorism, illegal immigration and education problems.
“I am doing what millions of Americans are doing”.
“I don’t know what the future is going to hold”, Cruz told supporters at an open-air restaurant some distance from the arena where the convention is being held.
Rick Perry eventually endorsed Cruz after ending his own presidential bid.
“They saw my speech several hours before I gave it. They knew exactly what I was going to say”, Cruz said at Thursday’s breakfast meeting. One of Trump’s central themes in this campaign, said Weidenkopf, is to drop political correctness and that’s what Trump got from Cruz today.
She recalled then her father urging her to “think big”, adding that that is how he approaches any task: “He thinks big”. “And by your own delegation”, he asked Thursday on CBS’ “This Morning”.
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The extraordinary scenes show how split Republicans are following Mr Trump’s controversial campaign, and were at odds with the later claim by Mr Pence that it was a “united party”. “I will tell the truth!” winning back applause from backers.
