Texas Senator Ted Cruz has defended his failure to endorse Donald Trump as the US Republican nominee during his speech to the party convention in Cleveland.
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“I did not say a single negative word about Donald Trump”, Cruz said at a breakfast hosted by the delegates of his home state.
The 45-year-old Texas senator sensationally withheld an endorsement of Trump in his speech on Wednesday, earning a chorus of boos from the floor while getting upstaged in a power play by the Republican party nominee himself. Cruz was met with boos and chants of “We want Trump!” from the delegates as he left the stage with only a single mention of Trump to congratulate him for his nomination.
“Donald Trump is standing with the American people”, Walker said during his convention speech. “You know, Hillary Clinton wants a better title and I would too if I was already America’s secretary of the status quo”.
Unlike Cruz, Walker did right by the party by throwing his support behind Trump during his speech at the RNC Wednesday night. After pledging to support whoever is emerged as the Republican nominee, many GOP loyalist see Cruz as a hypocrite for his stance on Trump.
“I am not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my father”, he said, according to USA Today.
Trump also made suggestions that Cruz’s father had indirect links to John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
“He’ll come and endorse over the next little while”.
Pence told the delegates the November election will be crucial and said Trump would bring “huge” change to the nation. Throughout the campaign, Trump referred to Cruz as “Lyin’ Ted” and planned on exposing purported secrets about Heidi.
McIver explained that she jotted down some passages from Obama’s speech after Melania Trump read them out loud on the telephone as examples for inspiration.
But as Cruz ended his remarks, and as the crowd of more than 2,000 delegates at the Quicken Loans Arena waited for Cruz to say something – anything – kind about Trump, he demurred.
Democrat Hillary Clinton, in a tweet, quickly echoed Cruz, saying, “Vote your conscience”.
No one can say there was a lack of drama and friction this week at the GOP convention.
She didn’t need to marry me, she was making a lot of money.
“There are a lot of people wondering, ‘what am I doing?'” Kasich told the crowd at a meeting of the OH delegation today.
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Former Texas Governor Rick Perry – like Cruz, a casualty of Trump’s juggernaut in the primaries – chastised his fellow Texan.
