Cruz defends his refusal to endorse Trump

“Donald Trump gave Ted Cruz a prime-time spot”, said New York Republican chairman Ed Cox about Cruz’s unexpected refusal to endorse Trump at Wednesday night’s session of the Republican National Committee.

The strongest language came from retiring Indiana Sen.

Pressed about his pledge to support the eventual nominee, Cruz responded he had every intention of keeping that promise until the race became personal.

“For Cruz to get up there and speak, was wrong”, Curran said. “If he wasn’t going to endorse, he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the podium”.

NY delegates, sitting front and center of the stage, said they watched the TelePrompTer closely as Cruz spoke, watching for an expected endorsement by the runner-up.

Mr Cruz said he would not be a “servile puppy” to someone who had attacked his wife and father.

“Why should he? Did you see the things that Trump did to Ted Cruz right from the very beginning of this campaign?”

Cruz described the speech as a blueprint for a Trump campaign that could appeal to conservative voters like himself.

Trump repeatedly mocked Cruz throughout the campaign as “Lyin’ Ted”.

But the convention briefly erupted in chaos on Monday when opponents of Trump stormed out of the room and others chanted in a failed attempt to force a vote opposing his candidacy.

“I can tell you I’m not voting Hillary”, Cruz replied to much applause.

In his remarks, Cruz only congratulated Trump on his nomination, and told delegates they should “vote their conscience” in November.

A night after being booed off the Republican National Convention stage, Texas Sen.

The Trump campaign also wanted Cruz to go further and at least include some more positive words about the nominee, Roe said, but that Cruz had gone as far as he wanted to go.

“And to those listening, please, don’t stay home in November”, Cruz said.

After the breakfast, David Barton, a former vice chairman of the state party, who headed a Cruz super PAC, seemed unperturbed by the hubbub. “Stand and speak, and vote your conscience”.

On Wednesday night, more than 2,000 delegates at the Quicken Loans Arena waited for Cruz to say something – anything – kind about Trump, but he demurred.

He called presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the “secretary of the status quo”, referring to her former job as secretary of state.

“Now, that would send a shockwave through America”, he said. The senator who is believed to be considering another presidential bid in 2020 drew heavy boos from Trump delegates and undermined the efforts of convention planners to project Republican unity in the wake of Trump’s primary victory. At a convention, each party formally nominates its candidates for president and vice-president, and the party unveils its party platform, or manifesto. But delegates said Thursday it’s time for him to get behind Trump, despite coming in second nationally.

In response to a question about potential Russian aggression towards the Baltic states, Trump told the newspaper in an interview that if Moscow attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us”.