Cruz says he won’t be a ‘servile puppy’; critics say he’ll never be president, Sen. Ted Cruz’s arguable accent to the Republican Civic Assemblage on Wednesday night was best Cruz — a calculated, high-risk action that could either anguish his political career or accord him a belvedere for a 2020 or 2024 White House run.
The inferior agent from Texas stood by his accent and accommodation not to endorse Republican presidential appointee Donald Trump, a move that produced boos and alienated abounding conventioneers, including some associates of the Texas delegation, who both animated him and challenged him at a breakfast Thursday. Cruz responded: “I’m traveling to avert your appropriate even to insult me.”
Even Cruz’s a lot of agog supporters seemed abashed by his remarks. At the actual least, he appears to acquire splintered his own base. A lot of assembly either declared their abuse for his abnegation to abutment Trump or pivoted to affair devotion.
“If anyone thinks I was acquisitive to appear to this assemblage and accord a accent … acknowledging a abundant abounding of the policies, positions laid out by Donald Trump … admitting the actuality that neither he nor his advance has anytime taken aback a chat they said about my family, I affiance you I was not acquisitive to do this,” Cruz said Thursday morning. He aswell connected to debris to say he would vote for Trump.
“What does it say if you angle up and say ‘Vote your conscience’ and berserk supporters of our appointee activate agreeable ‘What a abhorrent affair to say?’ If we can’t accomplish the case to the American humans that voting for our party’s appointee is constant with voting your conscience; is constant with arresting abandon and getting affectionate to the Constitution, again we are not traveling to win and we do not deserve to win.”
Cruz supporters and foes accede that his accent was a chancy move that could either accomplish him attending clear-sighted about Trump or accomplish him added of a political alien in Washington than he already is.
If Trump loses the accepted acclamation in November, or proves to be a abortion as president, Cruz’s accent and second-place accomplishment in the 2016 GOP primaries, sets him up as the arch Republican applicant in 2020 a allotment of bourgeois and evangelical voters, according to several political observers.
“If Donald Trump loses, he (Cruz) will be a abstracted who captivated his ground,” said Roger Beckett, controlling administrator of the Ashbrook Center at Ohio’s Ashland University, which offers American history and backroom educational programs to agents and others. “If Donald Trump wins, he’ll be a bigger alien in Washington, D.C.”
But Cruz wasn’t speaking to Washington on Wednesday night. Looking anon into the camera and the civic television audience, Cruz was ambrosial to bourgeois and evangelical voters, abounding of whom accurate his presidential run.
“The accent larboard the conventioneers disappointed,” Beckett said. “I’m not abiding it larboard the aforementioned consequence alfresco the convention. The ambition was the TV audience.”
Cruz still takes anger for Trump’s advance retweeting an aspersing photo of his wife, Heidi, on Twitter. Trump compared Heidi Cruz to his wife, ex-model Melania Trump, and wrote “The images are account a thousand words.”
Later, Trump said Cruz’s Cuban-born father, Rafael Cruz, was with Lee Harvey Oswald, Admiral John F. Kennedy’s assassin, above-mentioned to the annihilation in November 1963.
Cruz said Thursday morning: “I’m not in the addiction of acknowledging humans who advance my wife and advance my father,” and said the agreement that he and added Republican presidential candidates fabricated to aback the party’s closing appointee is meaningless.
“That agreement was not a absolute charge that if you go and aspersion and advance Heidi that I’m gonna nonetheless appear like a abject puppy dog and say, ‘Thank you actual abundant for calumniating my wife and calumniating my father,’” Cruz said.
Trump bidding his anger via amusing media, tweeting “Ted Cruz talks about the Constitution but doesn’t say that if Dems win the Presidency, the new JUSTICES appointed will abort us all!”
Donald Trump Jr., in an account for Thursday’s NBC “Nightly Account with Lester Holt,” said his father’s advance knew what Cruz was traveling to do and say but, “We let him do it. We were the bigger men.”
“We gave him a prime-time atom to do what he bare to do,” he said. “In the end, it in fact formed out abundant for us, because what little — if there was any — altercation absolutely galvanized abaft us afterwards that moment.”
Still, Paul Manafort, Trump’s advance manager, accursed Cruz for abetment out of the pledge.
“Everybody knew about the pledges. They knew what they meant,” Manafort told reporters at a account appointment Thursday. “(They knew) what obligation it put on them and how they interpreted their obligation.”
He mocked Cruz, adage he is a “strict constitutionalist (who) chose not to acquire the austere agreement of the agreement that he signed. As far as the arrangement was concerned, he was in violation, not anybody else.”
Cruz’s accomplishments larboard a absinthian aftereffect for abounding assemblage attendees and added Republicans. Above New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani alleged Cruz “a alienated Republican.”
“ … If we don’t exhausted Hillary Clinton, I don’t anticipate Ted Cruz can play the bold ‘I’m traveling to run four years from now’ afterwards getting a alienated Republican,” Giuliani said on “Breitbart Account Daily” and SiriusXM.
John Hancock, a Missouri agent and armchair of the Missouri GOP said Cruz’s accent “may leave a abiding bad consequence for Ted.”
Susan Klein, a Missouri delegate, said Cruz was a acceptable candidate, but added, “I anticipate it’s time to get abaft Donald Trump and move forward.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, in a statement, diplomatically said: “There were some alloyed animosity and some aching animosity in the Texas appointment today.”
“I was Cruz’s Texas chair,” Patrick said. “But I acquire been actual clear. I abutment Donald Trump because we accept to defeat Hillary Clinton in November.”
Said Robin Hayes, North Carolina’s GOP chairman, “It was one of the a lot of egocentric things politically I’ve anytime seen.”
Cruz’s accent has breach some assemblage delegations. If Hayes asked adolescent agent Ted Hicks what he anticipation of Cruz’s speech, Hicks replied, “I anticipation it was a accomplished speech.”
Hayes again told Hicks that he was no best acceptable aboard Hayes’ clandestine Pilatus even that they had aureate in calm to Cleveland. To Hicks and adolescent Cruz adherent Rod Chaney, Hayes said, “I anticipate you charge to ride the bus home.”
So the two Republicans North Carolina’s Triangle-area Republicans, who had accepted to fly aback with Hayes, accolade to acquisition a ride with a agent who happened to be active home Thursday.
“It’s not that they necessarily affronted me, it’s if you do somebody a favor … and they about-face about and abutment something that was unacceptable. … Accomplishments acquire consequences,” Hayes said.
Chris Yaudas, a delegate, formed for Cruz in Missouri. “I admired the speech,” she said. “You’re never traveling to accomplish anybody happy. If he had said he accustomed Trump, there would be detractors.”
Carl Bearden is a baton of the never-Trump accomplishment in Missouri. “I anticipate (Cruz) ashore to his principles,” he said. “Ted Cruz has been a constant bourgeois and you saw that endure night.”
The move is agnate to how Cruz has done business in the Senate, area he has alienated adolescent Republicans by generally traveling his own way rather than afterward political breeding in Washington. Cruz took a attempt at Republican leaders and above presidential candidates who abhorred the convention.
“There are a lot of options I could acquire taken that politically would acquire been a heck of a lot easier,” he said Thursday morning. “ … About-face appendage and run and don’t appear to the convention. There are a agglomeration of humans who did that. I ain’t one of them.”
He’s generally airy affair leadership. He questioned Senate Majority Baton Mitch McConnell’s bluntness on the alcove attic on Export-Import Bank legislation.
Cruz aswell becoming the ire of above House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for venturing from the Senate over to the House of Representatives to accommodated with that chamber’s bourgeois Republicans to artifice action that led to a fractional federal government abeyance in 2013.
Boehner alleged Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” adding, “I acquire never formed with a added afflicted son of a b***h in my life.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a above 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has alleged Cruz self-serving.
He “stood up for Ted and threw the Republican Affair beneath the bus,” Graham told Fox Account Radio in February.
Cruz addressed his accomplished break with the affair Thursday morning, adage he is about ideals, not getting allotment of a “social club.”
“How abounding of y’all would like to see added leaders angle up to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell?” he said in acclamation the Texas delegation. “ … Any time you angle up … administration screams: Abutment the team; you’re a Republican; we’re our leadership; sit down; shut up; just abutment the team. And dammit, if that’s the price, I ain’t traveling to do it.”
The inferior agent from Texas stood by his accent and accommodation not to endorse Republican presidential appointee Donald Trump, a move that produced boos and alienated abounding conventioneers, including some associates of the Texas delegation, who both animated him and challenged him at a breakfast Thursday. Cruz responded: “I’m traveling to avert your appropriate even to insult me.”
“If anyone thinks I was acquisitive to appear to this assemblage and accord a accent … acknowledging a abundant abounding of the policies, positions laid out by Donald Trump … admitting the actuality that neither he nor his advance has anytime taken aback a chat they said about my family, I affiance you I was not acquisitive to do this,” Cruz said Thursday morning. He aswell connected to debris to say he would vote for Trump.
“What does it say if you angle up and say ‘Vote your conscience’ and berserk supporters of our appointee activate agreeable ‘What a abhorrent affair to say?’ If we can’t accomplish the case to the American humans that voting for our party’s appointee is constant with voting your conscience; is constant with arresting abandon and getting affectionate to the Constitution, again we are not traveling to win and we do not deserve to win.”
Cruz supporters and foes accede that his accent was a chancy move that could either accomplish him attending clear-sighted about Trump or accomplish him added of a political alien in Washington than he already is.
If Trump loses the accepted acclamation in November, or proves to be a abortion as president, Cruz’s accent and second-place accomplishment in the 2016 GOP primaries, sets him up as the arch Republican applicant in 2020 a allotment of bourgeois and evangelical voters, according to several political observers.
“If Donald Trump loses, he (Cruz) will be a abstracted who captivated his ground,” said Roger Beckett, controlling administrator of the Ashbrook Center at Ohio’s Ashland University, which offers American history and backroom educational programs to agents and others. “If Donald Trump wins, he’ll be a bigger alien in Washington, D.C.”
But Cruz wasn’t speaking to Washington on Wednesday night. Looking anon into the camera and the civic television audience, Cruz was ambrosial to bourgeois and evangelical voters, abounding of whom accurate his presidential run.
“The accent larboard the conventioneers disappointed,” Beckett said. “I’m not abiding it larboard the aforementioned consequence alfresco the convention. The ambition was the TV audience.”
Cruz still takes anger for Trump’s advance retweeting an aspersing photo of his wife, Heidi, on Twitter. Trump compared Heidi Cruz to his wife, ex-model Melania Trump, and wrote “The images are account a thousand words.”
Later, Trump said Cruz’s Cuban-born father, Rafael Cruz, was with Lee Harvey Oswald, Admiral John F. Kennedy’s assassin, above-mentioned to the annihilation in November 1963.
Cruz said Thursday morning: “I’m not in the addiction of acknowledging humans who advance my wife and advance my father,” and said the agreement that he and added Republican presidential candidates fabricated to aback the party’s closing appointee is meaningless.
“That agreement was not a absolute charge that if you go and aspersion and advance Heidi that I’m gonna nonetheless appear like a abject puppy dog and say, ‘Thank you actual abundant for calumniating my wife and calumniating my father,’” Cruz said.
Trump bidding his anger via amusing media, tweeting “Ted Cruz talks about the Constitution but doesn’t say that if Dems win the Presidency, the new JUSTICES appointed will abort us all!”
Donald Trump Jr., in an account for Thursday’s NBC “Nightly Account with Lester Holt,” said his father’s advance knew what Cruz was traveling to do and say but, “We let him do it. We were the bigger men.”
“We gave him a prime-time atom to do what he bare to do,” he said. “In the end, it in fact formed out abundant for us, because what little — if there was any — altercation absolutely galvanized abaft us afterwards that moment.”
Still, Paul Manafort, Trump’s advance manager, accursed Cruz for abetment out of the pledge.
“Everybody knew about the pledges. They knew what they meant,” Manafort told reporters at a account appointment Thursday. “(They knew) what obligation it put on them and how they interpreted their obligation.”
He mocked Cruz, adage he is a “strict constitutionalist (who) chose not to acquire the austere agreement of the agreement that he signed. As far as the arrangement was concerned, he was in violation, not anybody else.”
Cruz’s accomplishments larboard a absinthian aftereffect for abounding assemblage attendees and added Republicans. Above New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani alleged Cruz “a alienated Republican.”
“ … If we don’t exhausted Hillary Clinton, I don’t anticipate Ted Cruz can play the bold ‘I’m traveling to run four years from now’ afterwards getting a alienated Republican,” Giuliani said on “Breitbart Account Daily” and SiriusXM.
John Hancock, a Missouri agent and armchair of the Missouri GOP said Cruz’s accent “may leave a abiding bad consequence for Ted.”
Susan Klein, a Missouri delegate, said Cruz was a acceptable candidate, but added, “I anticipate it’s time to get abaft Donald Trump and move forward.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, in a statement, diplomatically said: “There were some alloyed animosity and some aching animosity in the Texas appointment today.”
“I was Cruz’s Texas chair,” Patrick said. “But I acquire been actual clear. I abutment Donald Trump because we accept to defeat Hillary Clinton in November.”
Said Robin Hayes, North Carolina’s GOP chairman, “It was one of the a lot of egocentric things politically I’ve anytime seen.”
Cruz’s accent has breach some assemblage delegations. If Hayes asked adolescent agent Ted Hicks what he anticipation of Cruz’s speech, Hicks replied, “I anticipation it was a accomplished speech.”
Hayes again told Hicks that he was no best acceptable aboard Hayes’ clandestine Pilatus even that they had aureate in calm to Cleveland. To Hicks and adolescent Cruz adherent Rod Chaney, Hayes said, “I anticipate you charge to ride the bus home.”
So the two Republicans North Carolina’s Triangle-area Republicans, who had accepted to fly aback with Hayes, accolade to acquisition a ride with a agent who happened to be active home Thursday.
“It’s not that they necessarily affronted me, it’s if you do somebody a favor … and they about-face about and abutment something that was unacceptable. … Accomplishments acquire consequences,” Hayes said.
Chris Yaudas, a delegate, formed for Cruz in Missouri. “I admired the speech,” she said. “You’re never traveling to accomplish anybody happy. If he had said he accustomed Trump, there would be detractors.”
Carl Bearden is a baton of the never-Trump accomplishment in Missouri. “I anticipate (Cruz) ashore to his principles,” he said. “Ted Cruz has been a constant bourgeois and you saw that endure night.”
The move is agnate to how Cruz has done business in the Senate, area he has alienated adolescent Republicans by generally traveling his own way rather than afterward political breeding in Washington. Cruz took a attempt at Republican leaders and above presidential candidates who abhorred the convention.
“There are a lot of options I could acquire taken that politically would acquire been a heck of a lot easier,” he said Thursday morning. “ … About-face appendage and run and don’t appear to the convention. There are a agglomeration of humans who did that. I ain’t one of them.”
He’s generally airy affair leadership. He questioned Senate Majority Baton Mitch McConnell’s bluntness on the alcove attic on Export-Import Bank legislation.
Cruz aswell becoming the ire of above House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for venturing from the Senate over to the House of Representatives to accommodated with that chamber’s bourgeois Republicans to artifice action that led to a fractional federal government abeyance in 2013.
Boehner alleged Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” adding, “I acquire never formed with a added afflicted son of a b***h in my life.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a above 2016 Republican presidential candidate, has alleged Cruz self-serving.
He “stood up for Ted and threw the Republican Affair beneath the bus,” Graham told Fox Account Radio in February.
Cruz addressed his accomplished break with the affair Thursday morning, adage he is about ideals, not getting allotment of a “social club.”
“How abounding of y’all would like to see added leaders angle up to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell?” he said in acclamation the Texas delegation. “ … Any time you angle up … administration screams: Abutment the team; you’re a Republican; we’re our leadership; sit down; shut up; just abutment the team. And dammit, if that’s the price, I ain’t traveling to do it.”
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