The Republican National Convention (RNC) wasn’t without more drama Tuesday, when Alaska took issue with the number of its delegates the convention awarded to Donald Trump.
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That tension escalated during a speech by the conservative firebrand as the crowd awaited that endorsement from the former grassroots favourite who finished No. 2 in the primary contest.
Both words accurately describe what happened during Senator Ted Cruz’s afternoon rally in Cleveland today. As he’d been saying, it was up to the nominee – unnamed but looming – to unite the party.
And then he lowered the boom.
“Is this going to be a Ted Cruz saying, “Thank you to all my delegates, and by the way, I hate Hillary Clinton”?” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution”.
Cruz’s rebuke ignited a hot scene around the senator as soon as he left the stage.
Donna Metz, Cruz’s 2016 Kansas state co-chairwoman, wore a sparkling red, white and blue hat and was jostled in the crowd as she made her way toward Cruz.
But it wasn’t the only foreshadowing of the day.
But the boos underscore the fight ahead for the party as Trump gets set to run for president later this year.
The audible protest rippled through a group of staunch conservatives gathered for a rally with Sen.
Eubank said she hopes to hear Cruz urge support for what she called the strongest platform in Republican history.
Some chanted: “2020! 2020!” in the expectation Cruz will run again.
On Tuesday, delegates formally selected Trump and Pence as their candidates. Organizers say speakers will “discuss the Republican vision for a new century of American leadership and excellence”.
In 1976, Munisteri, 18 and on his way to begin his freshman year at the University of Texas, was working as part of the Reagan Youth Staff at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo., at which Reagan was attempting to deny renomination to Gerald Ford, who had assumed the presidency upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
This solitary statement of anti-Trump dissent played out on a waterfront patio.
“Should he endorse Donald Trump?”.
Delegates in the crowd had a mixed reaction to the possibility that Cruz will endorse Trump.
“Jeff”, Cruz said. “Jeff, did you email them to fly the plane right when I said that?” ‘I want to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump, ‘ retired Dallas homemaker Maggie Wright told DailyMail.com at the Cruz event.
Voters will still need to show identification at the polls under the decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to attorneys who challenged the law, but a lower court will now also have to devise a way for Texas to accommodate those who can not. By that point, Trump had insulted Cruz’s wife’s physical appearance in a retweet, had teamed up with friends at the National Enquirer to spread unsubstiated rumours of infidelity and suggested Cruz’s father might have been connected to the Kennedy assassination. Cruz said, laughing and turning to his campaign manager, Jeff Roe.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, another former presidential candidate, will also speak, but he is backing Trump.
