Donald Trump praises Cleveland, trashes Ted Cruz after convention

“I try to ignore him, but it is impossible now”.

If the nominee can not meet that threshold, he said, “We are not going to win and don’t deserve to win”.

At the MA delegation breakfast Thursday morning, delegates were still buzzing about Cruz instead of talking about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s vice presidential acceptance speech. “I will tell you that he went from candidate to president tonight”.

Republican disunity was on display the previous night when Trump’s primary rival, Ted Cruz, stopped far short of endorsing Trump and drew loud boos.

“I sensed a great deal more unity coming out of that building last night, though maybe he didn’t intend it that way”, Hancock said.

New York Republican Chair Ed Cox said Trump “did exactly what he needed to do”.

Cruz delegate Eric Burlison, a Missouri House member from Springfield, said Cruz may have done more harm than good for his own political career. “I thought it was a bad call”.

In an extraordinary display of party division – at a typically staid Texas state delegation breakfast that is meant to exemplify convention-week harmony – Cruz strained to manage the vitriol directed his way, stressing that he had not said a cross word about Trump.

Cruz did not endorse him in the Cleveland convention.

“You know, he’ll come and endorse over the next little while, he’ll come and endorse, because he has no choice”. “But I don’t want his endorsement”. What difference does it make?

But Trump said Friday that “Ted never denied it was his father”.

A Cruz aide said one of Trump’s advisers had reached out to the senator’s team shortly before the speech in hopes of getting a last-minute commitment. “The mayor, I want to thank”.

Cruz “gave the most captivating speech of the entire week, and then it just turned (with) his phrase at the very end” about voting your conscience, Burlison said. And I talk this way, because we’re all together.

He continued, “One of the most important things we wanted to accomplish in these four days is to lower that risk factor for the American people and anybody whose in that hall or watching TV these last three days, three nights, realizes that any man that has those four kids on stage is not a risk to anybody anywhere”.

Closing the four-day convention in Cleveland, Trump pledged that as president he’ll end crime and violence around the country, and said he would speak for those who don’t feel they are heard by government. Maybe I can be attorney general or solicitor general.’ And no. Rubio comes out and, as tepid as it may be, he does endorse Donald Trump. “I mean, you know, we can’t go insane”, he said.

“I think Cruz had a fantastic opportunity to advance his standing with the masses of Republicans who rallied around Trump and help to unify the party”.