The woman, Meredith McIver, who has ghost-written for Donald Trump before, said it was her fault: Melania had read her some ideas over the phone; she wrote them into her notes; added them into a draft; and they wound up in the speech.
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In fact, much of the rules debate focused on how it would impact a potential Ted Cruz 2020 win, so this report is believable.
Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorse GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will likely hurt his chances to be the party’s standard-bearer in the future.
Trump went on to dispute, lengthily, Cruz’s claims that the businessman insulted his wife and suggested that his father had something to do with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
“It sounded like he was building up to the endorsement” of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said Wiegert, a Trump delegate from St. Louis. “He sure doesn’t speak for me because I know we are stronger together”. “Endorse Trump!” but Cruz just smiled and said “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”.
On Wednesday night, he emerged in the convention hall while Cruz was still speaking, a move that appeared meant to steal some attention away from the senator.
Representative Peter King of Long Island drew a standing ovation by calling Cruz “a fraud and a liar”.
Delegate Hope Sutterfield of Duncan says Cruz should not have attended the convention at all if he didn’t intend to endorse Trump.
Trump made no mention of his former rival during his acceptance speech Thursday night, but he switched gears Friday morning.
Turning to his running mate, he said, “Are you allowed to set up a super-PAC, Mike, if you are the president to fight somebody?”
But Trump said that Cruz’s camp started it with an ad that ran in Utah showing racy photos of his wife, Melania Trump.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) pauses during his speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention Wednesday at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
Heidi is “a very nice woman and a very lovely woman”, he said.
“I think we thought he was going to leave the entertainment world and come over the wall into politics”, Jones said of the former host and executive producer of NBC’s “The Apprentice”.
And then when it comes to Cruz’s father, who Trump called “a lovely guy”, he insisted, “all I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and insane Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast”.
“His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being shot”, Trump said on Fox News on May 3, referring to a National Enquirer story the Cruz campaign had denied and called “garbage”. They’re not saying, ‘Oh that wasn’t really my father.’ It was a little hard to do. “People that probably four years from now or eight years from now would have looked at him as being the next guy, he lost them”.
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Stay on topic – This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand. We don’t want surprises, right? Chris Christie, ever the Trump flunky, scrambled to find the nearest mic and tell NBC News that Cruz had delivered “an bad, selfish speech, which showed everybody why he has richly earned the reputation he has on Capitol Hill”.
