“Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place”. They couldn’t believe a conservative hero had used a primetime speaking slot to disparage their nominee.
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For some, it’s not so much what Trump sees in his children that matter but more what they show about him. “He’s got to get up, shake hands”. Since Trump announced his intention to run for the White House previous year, she has been steadily drawn into her father’s presidential campaign. “Last night at the Republican convention Mike Pence looked at the mess of American politics and said, ‘I have faith that God can still heal our country.’ That’s true hope”.
Clinton has been a stronger unifier of the Republican Party than Trump. For Republican voters ready to follow Trump over the barricades, Cruz’s attack was a betrayal.
“A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama”, McIver says of Mrs. Trump. “If he gets that point across, I think a lot more people will feel comfortable with him”. Dan Coats (R-IN) told the IndyStar. “He only thinks of himself, he doesn’t think about party”. Cruz is so disdained by colleagues in Washington that Sen.
Ted Cruz ignited an eruption of bitterness. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
“I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”, Cruz ad libbed when delegates from Trump’s home state began shouting for an endorsement. This is about America. This is big boy time.
He then proceeded to dredge up the time he retweeted an unflattering picture of Cruz’s wife Heidi, as well as the time he suggested that Cruz’s father Rafael was involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Who unite us all behind shared values.
Cruz’s speech seemed to once again expose deep fractures inside the Republican party, after the “Never Trump” movement failed earlier this week to change the party’s rules to deny Trump the nomination.
Republicans were still fuming on Thursday morning about Cruz’s remarkable diss, as GOP stalwarts rushed to morning airwaves to bash the Texas senator. He knew that his fate depends on what happens on November 8 and how what happens on November 8 is interpreted by the Republican party going forward.
Even some of Cruz’s allies in the Freedom Caucus were dismayed by Cruz’s actions.
“Sen. Cruz, a strict constitutionalist, chose not to accept the strict terms of the pledge that he signed”, Manafort told reporters.
“I’ve seen this good man up close – his utter lack of pretense, his respect for the people who work for him, and his devotion to his family”.
Her demurral is notable: Trump was – at least prior to this presidential campaign – friendly with Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Trump’s Democratic rival. “Ted Cruz does what Ted Cruz does”.
Unlike other Texans who became Trump bandwagoneers after bad-mouthing him – we’re looking at you Rick Perry – Cruz declined, at least for now, to fall in line with a candidate he battled bitterly through primary season.
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Before a television audience of tens of millions, the bombastic billionaire will have to prove to the American people that he is worthy of the White House and capable of being commander in chief.
