Walker said Thursday during an interview on WTMJ-AM that he hopes Trump’s camp will stop criticizing fellow Republicans – such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who won’t endorse Trump and did not attend the convention – and instead focus on Clinton.
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He watched Cruz’s speech live on television and said it would have been too much to expect for the Texas senator to offer a formal endorsement.
One-time presidential challenger Ted Cruz shocked the Republican convention on Wednesday by thumbing his nose at Donald Trump and urging Americans to “vote their conscience”, sending the 2016 nominee’s bid to unify the party careening off course.
“Honestly he should’ve done it because nobody cares and he would’ve been in better shape four years from now if he’s” going to run for president again, Trump added, going on to float the idea of setting up a super PAC to oppose Cruz in 2020. “It’s disturbing to me that people would boo someone for saying, ‘Vote your conscience.’ Are we all Pavlov’s dogs?”
“I really think that he let the Republican party down last night”, said Beaman.
Afterwards, some Texas Republican delegates could be seen crying as they processed the emotional morning. “I mean, you know, we can’t go insane”, he said.
“He may have ruined his political career”. Trump predicted the intense backlash would force Cruz to “come and endorse over the next little while … because he has no choice”.
Trump then made a surprise appearance in his private box, glaring at the stage as Cruz departed.
“Neither he nor his campaign has taken back a word of what they said about my family”, Cruz said.
Maria Farias, vice chairwoman of the Bexar County GOP, said she did not buy Cruz’s reluctance to back Trump because he attacked the Cruz family.
Trump added, “What difference does it make?”
Graham claims that Cruz’s speech further divided the delegates. “Just, Ted, stay home, relax, enjoy yourself”.
Two sources, speaking only if they were not identified, said Mr. Trump would campaign at an unspecified time in the Lackawanna College Student Union Gymnasium. Contrast that with Richard Nixon, who knows Goldwater is going to lose-in this case, I don’t think Trump is going to lose-but he goes to the convention, introduces Goldwater, endorses him, campaigns for him in 38 states. “If he gives it, I will not accept it”.
“The whole idea is to bring the party together, so I thought that was pretty crappy”, said Beaman. Still, he said between this year’s convention and his time as a delegate in 2008, he’s never heard delegates react that way.
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Cruz acted like someone who had a beating heart inside – a cold, black heart if you listen to his peers in the Senate – but a heart nonetheless.
