As I argued after the first day of the convention in Cleveland, The Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn is right: the best case for Donald Trump is still this: that the alternative is the dowager empress of Chappaqua.
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Bruce Starr, a former state lawmaker who also worked on Kasich’s local leadership team, said he and the other Kasich delegates huddled on the convention floor and agreed to instead support Trump “in order to create at least an impression of order and party unity”.
Trump alluded to such a plan Friday morning in a speech.
Donald Trump said he prevented Ted Cruz from being ripped off the stage by entering Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena as hundreds of angry delegates lashed out at the Texas senator.
Both Cruz and Kasich have failed to endorse Trump for president, despite signing a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee a year ago.
“You know what, he’s lucky I did it”, Trump told Bloomberg Politics’ Co-Managing Editor Mark Halperin in an interview to air Sunday night on Showtime’s “The Circus”.
Now, according to Bloomberg News, Trump is willing to fund their downfall as payback for this betrayal.
If Trump pursues a revenge plan, it would be an about-face from his own rhetoric immediately after Cruz failed to endorse him. Between elections, or if Trump declares himself a one-term president, he would be allowed to donate to a super-PAC, but is not allowed to solicit contributions of more than $5,000. What’s on my mind is winning for the Republican Party.
It may not be long before Trump has a chance to put his money where his mouth is.
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Trump’s comments represent his latest bid for vengeance against Cruz, who is up for re-election to the Senate in 2018 and is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2020.
