After Wednesday night, Cruz remerged Thursday morning to bring the Texas delegation to its feet at a downtown Cleveland hotel ballroom when he said he could have “turned tail and run, but that ain’t going to happen”. Dalton Glasscock, a Cruz delegate from Wichita who previously anxious about the convention being a “coronation”, texted after the Texas senator’s speech, “Amazing”.
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Texas Sen.
Delegate Tammy Hooper of Laramie said she’s not surprised Cruz didn’t endorse Trump but thinks Cruz on some level should have urged support for the GOP nominee.
Trump, whose insults of Cruz were a constant on the campaign trail over the past year, tweeted that Cruz didn’t honor the pledge GOP candidates had signed to back the eventual Republican nominee. Aaron Miller, of Byron, a Trump delegate and chairman of the Republican Party of Olmsted County, said Cruz’s speech should have been Monday afternoon instead of in prime time. Senator McConnell said that Mitt Romney will become the Republican presidential nominee, and that Romney is an “oustanding” candidate.
Bauer made the remarks during a joint interview with blogger Jim Hoft, who pointed out that Trump was aware of the speech beforehand and “let Ted Cruz dig his own political grave”.
Up in the stands of the arena where alternate delegates are seated, there were loud outbursts of “Endorse Trump!”, and “Say his name!” “I am watching, I am listening”, Cruz said. “Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution”.
“First of all it made him a small person and it’s typical Ted Cruz, all about him”. Ted Cruz stubbornly defended his refusal to endorse Donald Trump, insisting he is not a “servile puppy dog” who would back anyone who personally attacks his family.
This resulted in booing of Cruz by Trump supporters as millions of Americans and people globally saw bringing to the fore the divide in the Republican party. That calmed the crowd, which had been getting antsy the longer Cruz spoke without endorsing Trump.
Former House Speaker John Boehner of OH, who had compared Cruz to the devil, responded by remarking: “Lucifer is back”, his spokesman said on Twitter. Trump also took jabs at the appearance of Cruz’s wife, Goldman Sachs executive Heidi Cruz, and the Texas senator responded that Trump is a “sniveling coward”.
“If we’re not going to do that, why do we have elections?” Because Ted Cruz has decided that he knows better?
The booing was so intense the Trump campaign encouraged its many staffers on the convention floor to try to calm the delegates down, said a Trump aide speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal campaign discussions. His daughter Ivanka Trump is second, businessman Tom Barrack came in third, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. was fourth and PayPal founder Peter Thiel came in fifth. He finished a distant second in the delegate accumulation during the Republican nominating process.
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He used his convention speech as the foundation for a fundraising email for his Senate campaign: “Will you stand with me by making an immediate donation $5, $10, $25, or whatever you can afford today?”
