But the climactic moment for Morrill, who is an officer at his party’s district organization in Phoenix, happened last night, when Ted Cruz took gave his speech and was heckled for not endorsing Trump and suggesting that people should vote their “conscience”. I will not accept it. It won’t matter.
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But he was startled by Hayes’ reply.
Hayes said he was justified.
Cruz, he said, had been “booed the hell out of the place”. “I know nothing about Lee Harvey Oswald, but there was a picture on the front page of the National Enquirer, which does have credibility, and they’re not going to dupe pictures like that, because they get sued for a lot of money if things are wrong, Ok?” FactCheck.org will check facts of of speeches, advertisements and more for NBC.
They’d come to the GOP convention hoping to find it after a contentious primary and the bruising ouster of their party chairman.
Delegate Jennifer Fetters said Hutchison’s confrontation with Cruz “embarrassed our delegation”. “It was very self-serving”. But I respect his position.
Not all people believe Trump is the clear choice for the job as president and some are not willing to work on his behalf, Wolper said.
Why would Cruz run in four years if Trump is going to be the next president?
As we wrote on May 3, the thinly sourced story hangs largely on comments from an expert who told the paper that a photo of an unidentified man handing out pro-Fidel Castro leaflets with Oswald has “more similarity than dissimilarity” with a passport photo of Cruz’s father, Rafael.
“He went back on a promise he made”.
“People behind me (in the arena) were dropping cuss words left and right”.
Argyle resident Dawn Frye said she was proud of Cruz.
Palin wasn’t the only one who said Cruz had destroyed his political career with the speech. While Trump himself sought to downplay the non-endorsement as not a big deal, his surrogates bitterly complained that Cruz had betrayed his pledge to ultimately support their party’s presidential pick.
Cruz lost the IN primary, dropped out of the race, and never formally endorsed Trump like some other failed 2016 Republican candidates did.
Donald Trump denied insulting Sen.
“He let us down”, Stovall said.
Bill Pozzi, a Texas delegate who had previously been supportive of Cruz, said he was “really mad” at the senator for not endorsing Trump, but said he was unsure whether he would support the senator in the future. When they saw Trump’s plane fly over, they erupted in a chorus of boos.
The state delegation was dominated by Cruz supporters.
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As he rode through OH in the back of a friend’s auto, Hicks criticized Hayes’ reaction to his remarks. And “You can’t expect unity from a party after you’ve torn it asunder”. “But Ted, if you’re so mad, why not just stay home?” I stand for principles. Trump said at a morning press conference in Cleveland. “I think what he has to worry about is when he’s up for re-election”.
