Ted Cruz, R-Texas, drew boos from Republican National Convention delegates Wednesday as he ended his prime time speech without offering a formal endorsement of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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The convention descended into chaos yesterday as Ted Cruz’s wife fled from the hall amid fears for her safety after her husband refused to endorse Trump for the USA presidency. I was watching Donald Trump waiting up, sort of in the rafters, I’m not sure if our cameras could catch it. Waiting for Ted Cruz to end.
In a speech minutes after Cruz finished, former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich veered from his prepared text to defend Cruz.
Wednesday afternoon, Pence and his family, along with Trump’s adult children, greeted the billionaire as his helicopter landed by Cleveland’s picturesque lakefront. If it pays off, Cruz will cement his status as the one Republican 2016 candidate who practices politics with an eye toward the horizon.
“He’s a prideful man and he’s proud of what he is but we’re in a general election campaign and it’s going to take all of us pulling on the rope if we’re going to pull the ship to the final line”, Cope said. He promised that Donald Trump, the presidential nominee, “will confront radical Islamic terror at its source and destroy the enemies of our freedom”.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Thursday he has “every confidence” Donald Trump will ensure the USA stands with allies and lives up to treaty obligations, after a report was published on Wednesday in which Mr. Trump was quoted as saying support for NATO allies could be conditional. Patton, who is black, said she was proud to support Trump “not just in spite of the color of my skin, but in fact because of the color of my skin”. I would have been the nominee if Trump hadn’t leapt into the race.
McIver offered to resign from the Trump campaign for lifting 63 words from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech and putting them into the mouth of the woman who hopes to replace the first lady.
Interrupted by chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump”, Cruz paused and said with a smile, “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”.
Still, Trump’s campaign invited Cruz to speak – as a headliner, no less. “And like each of you I want to see the principles that our party believes prevail in November”.
Pence also lobbed criticism at their Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
But Ken Cope, a delegate from Midlothian, Texas, gives Trump a little more credit than that – and says he’s appealing to a broad desire across the land for straight talk.
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“At the very moment when America is crying out for something new and different, the other party has answered with a stale agenda and the most predictable of names”, he said. Trump and his transition team, headed by Christie, already have a list of appointees they want to axe. Cruz dispensed with the preaching style that he had adopted during the campaign, and went back to his normal rhetorical style. That majority had nothing to do with alleged criminal activity (one of the charges was “ruining Libya”) didn’t make the exercise any less ugly. It is notable that, until McIver’s letter appeared, the Trump campaign and an army of surrogates repeatedly denied accusations of plagiarism.
