What could Donald Trump do to ‘make America great again’?

Ted Cruz to speak at the convention and not endorse him, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said.

“I love the media”, Trump said with a smile as he tested the microphone.

“What he did was agregious”. Cruz barked back that while he will not trash-talk Trump, he won’t “sit down, shut up, support the team” or be a “servile puppy dog” to someone who launched personal attacks against his family during the primary season. “I couldn’t believe it”.

In addition to promoting his own qualifications for the White House, Trump’s speech was aimed at uniting a convention in which the runner-up in the primary campaign refused to endorse him, critical delegates staged a noisy floor fight over the rules and a string of high-profile Republicans boycotted the entire event. Former presidential candidate Ben Carson linked presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to Satan, prompting Underworld officials to demand an immediate apology.

Mexico has always been a target of Trump’s ire, and he used his speech to repeat calls to “build a wall” on the southern border of the U.S.

Clinton campaign chair John Podesta said Trump painted a too-dark picture of America in a speech featuring “more fear, more division, more anger, more hate”.

Cruz said he had been very clear about his intention to the Trump campaign, even telling Trump he would not endorse him in a conversation before the convention and letting the campaign read his speech hours before.

The fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention is all about the GOP’s presidential nominee: Donald J. Trump.

Having embarrassed the GOP sufficiently and cast out its elders – the Bush family, the Romney family and enough veteran members of Congress to fill a separate convention schedule – Trump took the stage Thursday night.

Soraya Zamora, a south Texas delegate, stood and pleaded with Cruz to rally behind Trump, pointing to his pledge to back the eventual nominee. Or the Trump who ad-libs, riffs off the crowd, and strays from the campaign’s message of choice?

As president, Trump said he would defend an ally against Russian aggression only after first ensuring that the allies had met their obligations to the U.S.

Yet, “it doesn’t matter unless we beat Hillary Clinton”.

“Two world wars have shown that peace in Europe is also important for the security of the United States”, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

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

With the Trump campaign saying it knew all along Cruz was not going to get behind Trump for president, Limbaugh said Trump was aware what he was doing. “They were already in the process of distracting from Cruz”. The candidate has provided relatively few, and thin, policy proposals. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had endorsed Trump, said in a Breitbart interview that Cruz’s move was a career-ender. “To me not signing a pledge is dishonorable”. “So as far as the contract was concerned, he was the one in violation, not anybody else”.

Speaking “to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future”, Trump said: “I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you”.

The gathering’s open secret was that Cruz came to the convention to audition for 2020 – an ambition that largely counts on Trump losing this year.