Trump takes time from victory lap to swat at Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz as an invited speaker.

In his first news conference since accepting the nomination, Mr. Trump on Friday re-ignited his primary fight with Mr. Cruz, R-Texas, whose bitter refusal to endorse the celebrity mogul this week cast doubts on the party’s attempts to unify before the general election.

“The way we unite and the way we win in November, is we come together to defend freedom”, Cruz said. It belonged to the Republican Party, and that’s whom Cruz was addressing.

“I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”. He did his conservative duty in resisting Trump; now he’s doing his partisan duty in backing him. Cruz looked up after autographing one of Moon’s floor credentials. Cruz finished second in the primaries this year. Up until the convention, the idea that a fellow Republican could credibly challenge Cruz in 2018 largely evoked blank stares.

A federal judge said he is inclined to deny a request by Trump’s lawyers to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the Republican presidential nominee of defrauding customers at the now-defunct Trump University. “I don’t know either”, he said. But here, we need to put ourselves in Cruz’s shoes.

Former House Speaker John Boehner of OH, who had compared Cruz to the devil, responded by remarking: “Lucifer is back”, his spokesman said on Twitter. He reports, you decide. Walker’s primary campaign when he took four different positions on immigration?

“You either run scared or unopposed, so we’re always running scared”, he told reporters. Pence after all had endorsed Cruz over Trump in the Hoosier primary. Patrick – who spent the first three days of the convention racing around Cleveland for media appearances, preaching party unity – was conspicuously subdued Thursday morning. It is not known what Cruz and Patrick discussed, but if his remarks to the Texas delegation the next morning were any indication, he was less than thrilled with how Cruz’s address turned out. At least with respect to Donald Trump, Walker has stretched out the process of wavering.

It was not long after Cruz’s speech before Trump allies were floating Patrick as a potential challenger to Cruz in 2018. “Just call our press office”, he said.

Within Republican circles, it is repeatedly stated that a non-vote for Trump is a vote for Hillary Clinton. The choice between the two parties is “obvious”, said Bettencourt, the chairman of the Senate GOP caucus.

The Cruz campaign did not comment for this story.

Conventions are rarely places where actual news happens, and when it does break out, it’s usually because someone went off script or went bananas, and in recent years, I’ve learned that no one does bananas quite as well as the GOP.

Love him or hate him, Texas Sen.

The blatant sign of GOP disunity angered some GOP delegates, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the Trump campaign and members of the nominee’s family.

But Wednesday night, with Cruz’s crass and insulting non-endorsement of Trump and the strong and evocative speeches of Pence and Gingrich, plus a rousing boost from Trump younger son, Eric, the conventioneers awoke and set a more enthusiastic stage for his own acceptance speech on the closing night. They included U.S. Rep. Similar to a certain Republican nominee, Cruz couldn’t care less.

Personally, if someone had treated my wife the way Trump treated Cruz’s, I’d be inclined to react in a much stronger way than simply choosing not to make a public endorsement. Say what you will about Donald Trump, but the man loves himself. “And he was a good debater, but he didn’t do well in the debates against me, according to every poll”. When, after accepting Pence, a standard-issue party conservative, as his running mate, Trump made a mess of the Pence rollout. “So Ted Cruz took his speech and was done…then made a statement that wasn’t in the speech…to me that’s dishonorable”. “Ted’s got time to get right on this deal, and I hope he will”.

The Trumpsterites will vilify Cruz and dismiss his non-endorsement.

“He may have ruined his political career”, Trump added.