Less than 12 hours after Cruz was booed off stage by Trump supporters at the Republican National Convention, the Texas senator was subjected to an extraordinary barrage of criticism at his delegation’s daily breakfast. Trump promised to “Put America first”. “From where I sit, I didn’t see a statesman step forth for the country’s future”, wrote Huckabee, who has endorsed Trump. Today, Kasich told the GOP crowd he has campaigned for numerous GOP pols in this election season, including U.S. Sen.
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While Trump in past months has proposed a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, he said Thursday the suspension would apply only to immigrants “from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism”.
“It is not simply blindly chanting a name and yelling down dissenters”, he said, alluding to Trump’s popular “Trump!”
Kasich, the popular governor of the key swing state and the third-place finisher in the Republican primaries, has been under attack by the Trump camp this week, with campaign boss Paul Manafort calling him “petulant” and accusing him of “embarrassing his party” and doing a “dumb dumb dumb thing”. McIver released a statement Wednesday saying that she had inadvertently included some phrases from Mrs. Obama’s speech into Mrs. Trump’s address and offered her resignation. ‘But most of the voters just focus on what Trump says and what he represents’. They have made the journey, as I have, from backing Cruz to backing Trump the moment he became the only option for defeating Clinton. We will make America proud again.
Trump, an inveterate tweeter, took to social media after Cruz’s convention speech.
As the last speaker at the gathering, Trump, 70, has a chance on Thursday night to end on a positive note when he makes a prime-time address to formally accept the presidential nomination. He called on Trump to clarify Thursday night when “the world is watching”.
The New York businessman, who has never held elected office, filled his speech with some of the bravado he used to win the Republican nomination over 16 rivals, punctuating his rhetorical points by waving an index finger.
Trump raised the stakes in an interview in which he said he would set new conditions before coming to the aid of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies.
The presidential nominee’s acceptance speech is nearly always the most important event at a convention because it allows a nominee to speak directly to a huge swath of the electorate. Ted Cruz of Texas, pointedly refused to endorse the party’s nominee during his convention speech, inciting a chorus of boos and catcalls from pro-Trump delegates.
“That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, that I’m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father, ‘” Cruz said on stage at a Marriott in Cleveland.
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He told Inside Edition the Trump family was “disapointed” with Cruz, adding: “Senator Cruz signed the same pledge all the other candidates did”. When GOP leaders blocked that effort, the anti-Trump delegates staged a noisy protest on the floor. Even if you disagree, like I do, it was the most convincing defense of Trump’s readiness and ability to perform the job. Someone who believes that “meetings” will bring the Kurds and the Turkish government together (they won’t), someone who thinks that Putin is being “very complimentary” (he isn’t, and that wouldn’t be a good thing), someone who appears occasionally incapable of speaking in complete sentences.
