Watch Ted Cruz Get Booed Offstage for Not Endorsing Donald Trump

“They saw my speech several hours before I gave it. They knew exactly what I was going to say”, Cruz said at Thursday’s breakfast meeting.

The Texas senator was speaking to the Texas delegation in Cleveland on Thursday morning where he was repeatedly pressed and declined to endorse (or even commit to voting for) Trump.

“I am watching. I am listening”.

But many in the crowd were unsatisfied with his explanations for not endorsing Trump.

Manafort told NBC’s Today on Thursday that Cruz “understood what the responsibilities are, someone in his position”. Ted Cruz, still refused to endorse him – and happily took the convention stage anyway.

At least one person in the audience believed Cruz should look beyond insults on the primary campaign trail and shouted at him: “This is politics”.

McIver, who has co-written books with the real estate mogul, on Wednesday issued a statement through Donald Trump’s campaign website, apologizing for the “hysteria” she caused.

The candidate said he just wanted people to come out of the Republican National Convention knowing this fact: “I’m very well-liked”. They’re not here because they’re planning to vote Republican in November.

Cruz tried to laugh off the awkward moment saying jokingly, “I appreciate the enthusiasm of the NY delegates”.

Cruz said it’ “up to us” to determine whether it’s true or not. “Stand and speak and vote your conscience”.

And, he said he asked conservatives at home and Republicans to go out and vote for “candidates that you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution”. The most important speech of his presidential campaign will bring down the balloons on a convention marked by divided loyalties and unwanted distractions as well as full-throated roars against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

“If you’re not a man of your word, what are you, then?” she demanded to know, telling him that she turned her back to him when he walked onto the convention stage, “because you lied to me”.

But Trump said later on Twitter that Cruz’s lack of an endorsement was “no big deal!”

Cruz explained too why he turned his back on the loyalty pledge he signed past year, which had been pushed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and which stated that candidates would support the eventual Republican nominee and would not seek a third-party run.