Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) controversial speech on Wednesday night, where he failed to endorse the Republican nominee and seemingly offered a nod to the “Never Trump” movement by telling voters to “vote their conscience” in November.
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“When I was a child, my father always told me, ‘Ivanka, if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big, ‘” she said. New York Congressman Peter King called the Texas senator an anatomical expletive.
“The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction overseas – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”, Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention reads.
“As a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said”, he responded.
He accepted that he had said on a debate stage earlier in the spring that he would support the Republican nominee whomever it ended up being, but said that he had made a decision to renege on that pledge “the day this became personal”. “At the end, I was disappointed that Cruz didn’t endorse Donald Trump”. According to Politico, a super PAC backing Hillary Clinton, Correct the Record, obtained and leaked the draft from a Republican source. Speakers have included an African-American pastor and a Korean-American delegate who both praised Trump as a candidate who will foster equal opportunity for all Americans.
Trump won big on Donovan’s home turf in the April 19 primary-bigger than anywhere else in the city, the state and even most of the country.
Party leaders had sought a smoothly-run convention that would unify around the unorthodox White House candidate and present him as a strong leader capable of taking on challenges from the security threat of ISIS to wage stagnation in the United States. As he wound down his speech, a storm of boos erupted. Cruz finished second to Trump in the crowded Republican primary campaign and congratulated the GOP nominee on his victory.
Ivanka Trump, speaking directly before her father Thursday night at the Republican convention, worked to humanize the GOP nominee and shared personal experiences of GOP nominee Donald Trump from her childhood. German-born Thiel said he was proud to be gay, but did not make an expected appeal for the Republican Party to adopt a more gay-friendly platform. I’m looking for a good grouping of words, that’s going to talk about our country, and the problems we have. “We’re weak in so many different ways”, he told ABC News. “I think you’ll see a little bit of theatrics”.
“I’ll be watching and listening”, Cruz said, but added: “I won’t sit down, shut up, support the team”.
But comments by Trump to the New York Times raised fresh questions about his commitment to automatically defend fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members if they were attacked. They’re so honest, ” he said.
But it’s noticeable that the objection to Mr Trump in Cleveland is definitely not because of some of the more contentious things he has said about Muslims or Mexicans or women. It was a surreal moment given how carefully scripted political conventions normally are, and served as a fresh reminder that Trump events rarely go by the rules. In 2012, then-Republican nominee Mitt Romney rose by about 5 percentage points in the Reuters/Ipsos poll after his party’s convention.
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The gathering’s open secret was that Cruz came to audition for 2020 – an ambition that largely counts on Trump losing this year.
