Before Trump even accepts the nomination, Cruz’s supporters as well as critics say undercurrents in Cleveland are emboldening the senator’s band of believers and stoking his 2020 prospects, should Trump lose in November.
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He said Senator Cruz had said, ” “you can vote your conscience for anyone that will uphold the constitution”. Acknowledging his relative lack of fame, he joked that Trump, with “his large personality, his colorful style, and lots of charisma”, must have chosen him because “I guess he was looking for someone to balance the ticket”.
Joan Camera, a guest of a NY delegate, said that Trump hadn’t been her first choice (that was neurosurgeon Ben Carson) or her second (Marco Rubio).
The response from the crowd was immediate and aggressive, as people stood up and shouted down Cruz, and he left the stage to a loud chorus of boos.
Months after he started calling him Lyin’ Ted, Donald Trump appeared at a May rally in IN and suggested that Sen.
Trump, the in-your-face outsider, won at the cost of alienating many traditional Republicans both on the right and in the center, and the divide has spilled over into the convention, though without overwhelming it. The roll call unfolded largely according to plan after a day dominated by unwelcome attention over passages from an eight-year-old Michelle Obama speech that made their way into Melania Trump’s address to the convention, nearly word for word, the night before.
Now with successful appearances from the likes of Donald Trump Jr, his eldest son, and anticipation ahead of Ivanka Trump’s speech on Thursday, many commentators have been asking whether Mr Trump’s children could also follow him into politics.
Rubio, meanwhile, once the party establishment’s great hope before Trump clobbered him in his home state of Florida, has had a balancing act of his own in backing the man he ridiculed as a “con artist”.
“Our party was founded to defeat slavery”.
She pointed to the negative way the convention thus far has been run, with Trump using the party establishment to shut down delegate dissent on opening day.
Christie said Cruz’s speech was “awful” and “selfish”.
“Toward the end, where the other speakers would say, ‘This is why we need Donald Trump, ‘ he just said, ‘Vote for your conscience, ‘” said Nancy Weres, a California delegate. But F.H. Buckley, the writer behind the original work in question this time – an article in The American Conservative – said he was a principal speechwriter for the younger Trump and said the campaign did nothing wrong.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, oilman Harold Hamm and casino mogul Phil Ruffin were among Mr Trump’s full-throated advocates. For those like her, the innuendo of Clinton’s dodgy behavior is a better motivator to back Republicans than anything that can be said about Trump. Most of the people criticizing her can’t speak five languages. For a third straight night, the crowd repeatedly chanted, “Lock her up”. He explained to the crowd that all the senator said was that they should vote with their conscience for anyone who will uphold the constitution. When asked two weeks ago why he hadn’t yet endorsed Trump, Lee listed Trump’s comments about the Kennedy assassination as the first of many reasons. “That set a bad tone for the week”, she said. “We were not treated like part of the party at this convention”.
Under Trump, she predicted, the party will remain divided. “These votes had nothing to do with Trump”, he said. And I just want to point it out to you.
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“So let me be clear: a vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary Clinton”, he said.
