In the wake of Ted Cruz defying his pledge to endorse whomever the GOP nominated for president, the Texas senator is feeling the wrath of many Americans, including Sarah Palin. Or will he instead use his premium airtime to enunciate his own vision for the GOP?
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“I’m beginning to understand why Ted Cruz has been hated by everyone every place he’s ever been from kindergarten to the United States Senate”, she said later into the interview.
Other passionate Cruz and Rubio delegates said that just because their former candidate might endorse Trump, doesn’t mean they have to agree with the nominee’s politics. “And like each of you, I want to see the principles that our party believes prevail in November”. Targeting the angst and discontent among voters this election cycle, Trump stepped up to the podium and declared he was willing to take on the challenge of speaking truth to an established, well-oiled power and their sometimes immoral decisions and plans which have destroyed other people’s lives, left them without their loved ones or perhaps without much faith or hope for their futures.
A number of the delegates even attended Cruz’s rally in Cleveland on Wednesday held prior to his RNC speech.
Trump said he wouldn’t accept an endorsement from Cruz. Trump also took jabs at the appearance of Cruz’s wife, Goldman Sachs executive Heidi Cruz, and the Texas senator responded that Trump is a “sniveling coward” and later “a pathological liar”.
“Obviously with 17 people running for the nomination, there are going to be people who are disappointed, but in all the times I’ve run for office, I’ve found that there’s one irrefutable rule: It’s the candidate who gets the most votes wins, and that’s just the way it is”, U.S. Sen.
“Our candidates certainly don’t have to fall in line with everything Trump says and neither do we,”said Michael Hensley, a Rubio delegate from Thorn Hill, Tenn”. Roe had warned Cruz he could be booed as soon as he was introduced, and Roe said it might not be politically wise to field questions from his home-state delegation.
Gov. Terry Branstad said Cruz did a good job in delivering his remarks, “but I think he made a mistake by not going one step forward and actually doing the endorsement”.
“I am not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my father”, he said. “But there was a picture on the front page of the National Enquirer, which does have credibility”, Trump said.
Cruz declined to endorse Trump during his primetime address, eliciting boos from Trump supporters. On Thursday, however, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort seemed to contradict that, telling ABC News the campaign “didn’t know [Cruz] wasn’t going to endorse Trump”.
“I have no control over anything”, he said.
The differences between Cruz and Trump were based in personality and policy.
Still, Trump’s campaign invited Cruz to speak – in a headliner role, no less. “And I think it was appropriate to let him know, ‘Hey, wait a second – this is a time to pull together”.
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“I think he missed a golden opportunity, I really do”, Kaufmann told reporters.
