One thing’s for sure, it is already being compared to past convention speeches and will mark Cruz as gutsier than most of his party.
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Donald Trump capped off the week of the Republican National Convention on Friday by delivering a speech that focused ― if that can ever be the right word for a Trump event ― on Sen.
As the crowd chanted: “Lock her up” for her handling of US foreign policy, Trump waved them off and said: “Let’s defeat her in November”.
The convention’s four days were dominated at times by controversies that distracted from Trump’s message.
“Everybody in that room … was behind my father”, the younger Trump said.
Trump will end his speech with an emotional appeal to parents, casting himself as the champion of future generations.
But the win had come at the cost of a seriously divided Republican Party, where many prominent figures of the party, including two previous Republican presidents and two previous Republican presidential nominees refused to attend his crowning party.
He said nation-building pursued by Mrs Clinton in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria had made a bad situation worse. He will also criticise her willingness to bring in thousands of refugees from the Syrian civil war. Obama and Hillary think ISIS is the JV team, Cruz said, and make a deal with a country that celebrates Death to America Day and Death to Israel Day, he added.
To chants of “USA, USA”, in which he joined, Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president and promised to be “the voice” of people who feel left behind in the economy. So the Texas senator’s decision not to endorse Trump Wednesday night did not come as much of a surprise. As Andrew Cohen, a fellow debater and a history professor at Syracuse University, noted on our debate-alumni Facebook page: “I’m struggling with feelings of awe, respect, and even pride about Ted’s speech last night”.
But family is different.
Trump likewise said it was “dishonorable” of Cruz to abandon his pledge to support the Republican nominee. And a Trump delegate had to be restrained from getting too in the face of Cruz after his speech wrapped. Ted Cruz, told Business Insider.
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and who attack my father”, he said. (The FBI director has said he did not see a reason to charge Clinton with a crime for her use of a private email server.) Reaching out to supporters of Clinton’s primary rival, Vermont Sen.
This, a Trump top aide remarked, is now the “party of Trump“.
“I don’t care. We don’t need it”.
“We as Republicans tend not to take this in a personal way and double-down, as evidently Mr. Cruz has done”, said Rep. Pete Sessions, a Dallas Republican who is a House GOP leader.
At a breakfast with the Texas delegation Thursday morning, Cruz discussed his non-endorsement.
He recently hedged on normally sacrosanct support for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies, warning it would depend “if they fulfill their commitments to us”.
Trump, who called himself “the law and order candidate”, went on to touch on his plans to “put America first”, his plans to cut taxes (“America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world”, he said – a blatant lie), and how he wants to give up on global treaties, which he says have lost America respect in the worldwide scene. She is set to be formally nominated at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia next week. “We could have said, ‘Don’t speak, ‘” he said.
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“Trump will get us to 90 percent unity”.
