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. Kernen opined that Cruz should’ve shaken his “personal delusions” by now after losing the 2016 primaries.
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“I think it was selfish, I think it was dishonest”, Donovan said in an interview after a breakfast with his delegation Thursday morning. “Cruz didn’t get the memo”, Perry said. Marco Rubio before Kansas’ presidential caucuses in March but since has said repeatedly he’s backing Trump, though Brownback was not a convention delegate.
Annie Dickerson, an adviser to Republican megadonor Paul Singer and a delegate from NY, said, “I’ve been at these conventions since 1980”.
Senator Ted Cruz’s speech on Wednesday night ended with booing from the audience.
The Hill asked Stone, a longtime Trump ally and conservative agitator, if he would consider Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, who lost a primary challenge to Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) in 2014.
Cruz received a standing ovation as he took the stage, but cheers turned to boos when it became clear the senator from Texas did not come to endorse his former rival. Other than being a minor annoyance for Trump, Cruz’s speech was wholly unremarkable, platitudes delivered in his typical male-lead-in-a-high-school-play style.
Cruz did not back down from his non-endorsement on Thursday, saying that “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”.
Trump delegate Cynthia Schaffer (SHAY’-fur) of Tinley Park says it was “terrible” that vanquished Trump rival Cruz didn’t formally endorse the NY real estate developer – which earned him boos from delegates at the event Wednesday night.
This was no “Whoops, parts of Melania Trump’s speech were plagiarized!” moment, no “Golly, Ben Carson departed from his prepared remarks and linked Clinton to Lucifer” embarrassment.
Alternate delegate Sue Lynch, a Republican activist from La Crosse County, said Cruz embarrassed the party and should have honored the pledge he made as a candidate to endorse the ticket. “I hope to hear him reach out to the various factions within the party and invite them in to work with his campaign – that’s what is most important as we finish the convention this week”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“There’s 54 Republicans in the Senate – he found one to endorse him”, the congressman said.
Cruz didn’t tell the convention crowd that he plans to vote for Trump. Again, if Cruz found it hard in going all-out in supporting Trump, then stay away. Cruz has built himself as a consistent, principled conservative. “Stand and speak, and vote your conscience”. “I think he was not respectful to the invitation by the convention to come and speak”.
Trump’s lawyer also felt that Cruz was in the wrong, stating that “the only way to describe it is political suicide”.
Senator Ted Cruz took a different approach.
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On Wednesday night, more than 2,000 delegates at the Quicken Loans Arena waited for Cruz to say something – anything – kind about Trump, but he demurred. And by the 2024 presidential race, no one will remember or care what he said or didn’t say at that insane convention in 2016.
