An in-house Trump staff speechwriter on Wednesday apologised for using First Lady Michelle Obama’s quotes in a speech delivered by Melania Trump at the Republican National Convention and offered her resignation. “When he didn’t do the right thing, people went insane”. “That is the standard we should expect, from everybody”, Cruz said in his 20-minute speech as he set his standard for the next United States president. The reason? He didn’t endorse Donald Trump. Cruz finished second to Trump in the crowded Republican primary campaign and congratulated the GOP nominee on his victory.
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“This was my mistake and I feel bad for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Michelle Obama”, said McIver.
The incident, as well as an earlier unsuccessful effort by Cruz supporters, including former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, and others to unbind the delegates was evidence that Trump has yet to unify the party behind his candidacy.
“Vote your conscience”, Cruz, the junior U.S. senator of Texas, told the Republican National Convention crowd in Cleveland, Ohio.
Recently, Donald Trump suggested that Ted Cruz’s wife was ugly and hiding bad secrets, while Cruz’s father was a likely co-conspirator in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“They keep thinking they’ve done him in”, Pence said to applause at the Republican convention in Cleveland.
The Texas senator tried his best to ignore the chanting, and at one point ad-libbed that he “appreciated the enthusiasm” of delegates from Trump’s home state of NY.
Trump’s speech will close out a four-day conclave in Cleveland that exposed continuing divisions among Republicans over their nominee at a time when they need to unite for a looming battle against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the November 8 election.
The Oklahoma senator served with Cruz on the armed services panel, and said Cruz’s remarks didn’t come as a total shock. “But I think we’re at a place in our country’s evolution where it’s particularly important now, with all that’s happened and the concerns that people have, for a positive vision to be laid out”. “He expected people to not be thrilled about this”, the adviser said. Because Ted Cruz has decided that he knows better?
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, formerly the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, didn’t mince words when he described Cruz’s remarks. “That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go ahead and attack Heidi that I’m going to come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father'”.
Cruz, according to Gingrich, said Americans should “vote your conscience for anyone who will uphold the constitution”. Even though Cruz seemed to approve of several aspects of Trump’s platform, he ultimately walked away from the podium without endorsing the Republican nominee.
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“After a long and spirited journey, the time for fighting each other is over”, Rubio said. He urged Americans to fight for the families of five police officers killed in his hometown of Dallas, as well as the family of Alton Sterling, a black man killed by police in Louisiana.
