Late Friday, Trump issued a statement: “I am greatly honoured by the endorsement of Senator Cruz”.
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The runner-up for the Republican presidential nomination made his much-anticipated announcement in a 737-word Facebook post and email to his supporters.
Cruz said he has taken that decision for two reasons: first, because past year he promised to support whatever Republican candidate was elected; and second, though he has “areas of significant disagreement” with Trump, “by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable”.
“Profoundly sad day for me”, Beck wrote.
“Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable, that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary”, he said.
Proving politics really does make for unusual bedfellows, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump warmly embraced the endorsement of his former rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, even as numerous latter’s supporters denounced the move. In a speech at the Republican convention in July, Cruz pointedly refused to endorse the GOP nominee, drawing boos from the pro-Trump crowd.
The debate over whether to endorse Trump has splintered the Cruz inner circle. Hannity even said he would blame peoplelike Cruz and other anti-Trump conservatives if Trump loses. Lee had appeared blindsided when Cruz, a fellow member of the Judiciary Committee, used a 2015 hearing on criminal justice reform to announce that the threat of “violent criminals” had moved him against a reform bill.
Now, that hero for anti-Trump conservatives has seemingly reversed himself.
A USA senator born in Arizona is on Donald Trump’s shortlist for possible Supreme Court nominees, it was reported Friday.
“(Ted Cruz’s) father, you know, was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s, you know, being shot.
The expanded group that includes Blackwell and nine other names was released Friday, and Trump called it a “definitive” list he would use to tap a nominee.
How did Trump respond?
The first presidential debate is only three days away and with Cruz stepping forward at this time and date, does that give Trump a little more wind under his wings?
But facing intensifying political pressure to back Trump, Cruz said he would cast a vote for Trump, while stopping short of an official endorsement in a statement posted Friday on Facebook.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, had called Cruz’s failure to endorse Trump “unconscionable”, and has been publicly flirting with challenging Cruz for the nomination to his Senate seat in 2018. “Trump has said he would sign it”. “I think its going fine”. He also might be seeking to placate those he angered when he encouraged Republicans to “vote your conscience” instead of endorsing Trump outright at the national convention.
“My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that”. “Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonClinton postpones trip to Charlotte No Fortune 100 CEOs back Trump Trump, Clinton to meet with Netanyahu Sunday MORE is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans”.
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Cruz and his aides have recently signaled that they were coming around to Trump. Tim Kaine took his own dig at Cruz, saying as he campaigned in Texas, “If somebody said that about my dad, they would never have me as a supporter for anything”. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way.
