Cruz jeered for refusing to back Trump, exposing Republican rift

“Governor Rick Perry, Governor Chris Christie, Governor Scott Walker, Dr Ben Carson, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz have all responded to Donald Trump’s generosity”, he said. Interrupted by chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump”, Cruz said with a smile, “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegation”.

Ted Cruz pointedly failed to endorse Donald Trump in his primetime speech at the Republican convention, it was left to the two other keynote speakers to fix the damage.

As he continued speaking, and the crowd began to realize that an endorsement seemed less likely, the cheers that marked the early part of the speech became boos.

Claim: Donald Trump’s tweet congratulating his wife Melania on her speech at the Republican Convention was identical to the message Barack Obama sent Michelle in 2012.

Trump’s team has been quick to respond, with Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, blaming opposing candidate Hillary Clinton. She champions Obamacare, which she all but invented, more taxes and more government, he said.

Not everyone was put off by Cruz’s speech.

“I have to say, it’s not about Trump or Cruz, it’s about the United States of America”.

“Don’t come out on stage if you don’t want to endorse”, Eric Trump told NBC.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence, the party’s vice presidential nominee, elicited a rousing cheer from the crowd as he pledged to support Israel.

“I thought it was interesting”, Gramm said.

Sen. Ted Cruz avoided endorsing Donald Trump before telling RNC convention-goers: “We?re fighting, not for one particular candidate or one campaign, but because each of us wants to be able to tell our kids and grandkids…that we did our best for their future”.

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

Meanwhile, the Trump family sat idly as Cruz spoke.

Cruz, 45, called Trump a “serial philanderer” and a “narcissist” during the campaign.

It was undeniably the most controversial – and exciting – moment of the GOP convention so far, the Republican presidential nominee publicly snubbed by his former rival in front of a crowd of more than 20,000.

As president, Trump said he would defend an ally against Russian aggression only after first ensuring that the allies have fulfilled their obligations to the U.S. “If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes”, he said.

“Many of them are not for Trump, and they aren’t happy that he has presented the party with loads of problems”.

He mentioned Mr Trump by name only once, and stubbornly refused to endorse him, triggering thunderous boos from angry delegates as he encouraged Americans to simply “vote your conscience” in November. “But as I just expressed to you, when it’s a binary decision, we have a great responsibility to make sure that we keep this republican intact”.

The GOP presidential nominee told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday that he appreciated Meredith McIver’s apology.

The gulf between Pence’s hearty embrace of Trump and Cruz’s reluctance is emblematic of the turmoil still roiling the GOP.