Trump had repeatedly mocked Cruz throughout the campaign as “Lyin’ Ted”. “The clarity with which he talked about trade and immigration, and the sense that he alone had the power to disrupt the special interests and give government back to Americans, made clear to me that he was the leader we needed”.
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Cruz said he will be watching and listening but won’t sit down, shut up, support the team. “And as I told you last night, the standard that I intend to imply is which candidate I trust to defend our freedom and be faithful to the Constitution”.
As the GOP primary came down to the two candidates this spring, Trump and his surrogates attacked Cruz’s family.
Earlier this week, Manafort insisted that none of Trump’s remarks had been lifted from Obama’s 2008 speech to the Democratic National Convention, despite striking parallels. Marco Rubio, also addressed the convention’s third night, delivering lukewarm endorsements of Trump. Cruz vowed not to say anything negative against Trump going forward.
He said it was “dismaying” that Trump supporters booed him from the floor when he encouraged Republicans to “vote their conscience” in November. 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”.
Donald Trump has termed as an “innocent mistake” the plagiarism surrounding his wife Melania’s speech at the Republican national convention as the party’s presidential nominee rejected the resignation by the speechwriter.
Cruz is already positioning himself to run again for the White House in 2020 and discouraged supporters from casting a vote for him this fall.
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“I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech”.
