Cruz told the audience at Quicken Loans Arena Wednesday evening to “vote your conscience” during a 20-minute address. But that’s not all of it. Cruz is also banking on the idea that Trump will lose in such a way that it will cause a post-election reckoning by the Republican party who supported him.
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Cruz’s gamble is longer term. “Personally, I think Ted Cruz took the wrong way”. Would he flat-out refuse to endorse? We knew it wasn’t coming. Party leaders didn’t know, either. He said voters must ensure it’s Trump picking the justices.
As to Christie’s assertion that Cruz should have made good on the pledge he signed to endorse the eventual nominee, Roe pointed out that Trump never agreed to do so if he failed to get the nomination. Ted Cruz wasn’t backing down. Cruz, 45, said. “To those listening, please, don’t stay home in November”.
Representatives of the Trump campaign were plainly furious afterward, but how Cruz actually wound up on the stage delivering a call for voters to “vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution” without mentioning the party’s chosen candidate was unclear.
“It shows me and the rest of the Republican Party that Ted Cruz is not a supporter of the Republican Party but a supporter of only Ted Cruz”, he added.
“Cruz not endorsing amounts to political suicide”, said Keith Best, an alternate delegate attending the convention from Brantwood.
“He felt they had been through the crucible of a campaign and…they had a right to speak”.
Kelley said Cruz did what he said he would do: support the nominee – not the same as formally endorsing him. Despite the party’s obvious fracturing at a time when it’s seeking to unite, he also suggested the delegates’ loud snub of Cruz had rallied Republicans behind his father. “We don’t just put on red jerseys and blue jerseys”, he said. “This is about principles and standing for what I believe in”.
“He went back on his word to support the nominee”.
Asked about those attacks, Eric Trump said campaigns get nasty and every member of a candidate’s family comes under scrutiny.
“As he took the stage, I joined in to chants of “Newt” and listened as he drew a thunderous applause”, Goldsmith wrote. I hope not. I hope that he will come to his senses.
They weren’t, or at least Cruz wasn’t. Cruz argued that he did not intend for those words to be a snub of Trump, though they did encourage many delegates to actively boo him as he spoke on Wednesday night. “While others were attempting to stop Trump, Cruz was complimenting him and sucking up to him”.
Anderson was by no means alone in that feeling. “We have not abandoned who we are in this country”. Stephanie Akin rounds up to the reaction to Ted Cruz’s snub of Donald Trump during the Texas senator’s speech last night.
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“I thought Cruz was a humble man of God”. And it was clear the next one has already begun.
