“I thought it was fabulous”, Washington state GOP chairman Susan Hutchison, who earlier called Ted Cruz a “traitor to the party” for not endorsing Trump, reportedly said. “There wasn’t one person in the room, not one”, Trump said. To them, a President Donald Trump is the lesser of two evils, no matter their pledges of fealty to conservative or constitutional principles. It would have been easier – and certainly more politically palatable inside Quicken Loans Arena – for him to follow a Chris Christie, Marco Rubio or Scott Walker in offering varying degrees of endorsement for Trump, who left each in the primary dust. He said Cruz would “have been in better shape for four years from now” if he had endorsed Trump, although “I don’t see him winning anyway, frankly”. I feel so badly.
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“As a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said”, he ad libbed. “He’ll – because he has no choice”.
“Saying I’m going to vote for and support Donald Trump doesn’t mean I endorse everything about him”. What difference does it make? “I don’t want his endorsement”. I want to thank your police chief.
“And to those listening, please, don’t stay home in November. But that’s not where you want to necessarily send a risqué picture”, he said.
“Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs Obama’s speech as examples”. Just so you understand.
“Maybe I’ll set up a super PAC if he decides to run”, Trump said, then turned to his own lawyer in the audience.
Trump defended his retaliatory retweet of an unflattering image of Melania and Heidi.
Considering all the controversy by the time Ivanka Trump, the candidate’s oldest daughter and the one reportedly closest to him started speaking to introduce her father, the odds seemed high that somebody would come after Cruz, or take some swat at him before the night was over. I continue to believe that Cruz never expected the Manafort-generated backlash that erupted in the room when he uttered his “conscience” line.
“These are the forgotten men and women of our country – and they are forgotten, but they’re not going to be forgotten long”, said Trump. Because Ted Cruz has decided that he knows better? And he was a good debater, but he didn’t do well in the debates existence me according to. 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”. The businessman said that was a betrayal.
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Kasich was received warmly by OH delegates, who gave him a standing ovation at the beginning and end of his speech. To me, not signing a pledge is dishonorable, okay?
