Stakes Rising for Donald Trump’s RNC Speech After Ted Cruz Performance

Kahrs, an attorney, was a Cruz delegate and will start a four-year term on the Republican National Committee on Friday. Ted Cruz staunchly defended his decision not to endorse Donald Trump, saying on Thursday, July 21, he was not the Republican presidential candidate’s “servile puppy dog” in a damaging rift at the party’s convention ahead of the November 8 election. “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, Cruz said.

Cruz, who offered a devastating and personal critique of Trump after losing the May 3 IN primary and dropping out of the race, said, “I am not going to throw rocks at Donald”.

Ted Cruz and Chris Christie, former presidential candidates who both lost to Donald Trump, are engaged in a war of words after Cruz declined to endorse Trump during his speech to the Republican convention. Your word, in politics, has to be your bond.

Trump’s team says he’s ready for the speech, which is expected to focus on the need for change and criticism of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as the epitome of the establishment that should no longer rule politics.

Despite the anger from some delegates, Cruz had his share of supporters as well.

“I know that many things were said during the campaign, ugly things”, Zamora said. Numbers 30:2 says, “When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said”. It’s not even about Hillary Clinton.

Party leaders had sought a smoothly-run convention that would unify around the unorthodox White House candidate and present him as a strong leader capable of taking on challenges from the security threat of Islamic State to wage stagnation in the United States.

The sense of passionate conflict among Texans Thursday was a microcosm of the friction on the convention floor Wednesday night.

Pressed by members of the delegation to do what he refused to do in his prime-time speech Wednesday and endorse Trump, Cruz refused to commit to that. If Trump was banking on Cruz’s endorsement he has only himself to blame for that.

Reaction to Cruz was swift.

“We either stand for shared principles or we’re not worth anything”, he said.

Burlison said he had talked with many Trump supporters whose second choice would have been Cruz.

Although Trump tried to publicly brush off the struggle to win Cruz’s support, senior Trump adviser Paul Manafort went at Cruz’s pro-Constitution profile. “No matter how conservative you are, you never can meet Ted’s standard”, Coats told the IndyStar on Thursday. “So as far as the contract was concerned, he was the one in violation, not anybody else”.

During Wednesday night’s speech by Cruz, the NY delegation led chants of “Endorse Trump!” and “Keep your pledge!”

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

Susan Hutchison, chair of the Washington delegation to the convention, said she confronted Cruz after his speech and called him a “traitor to the party”.