I watched it. He congratulated Trump then went on and on. It wasn’t a memorial speech. I was fully expecting him to endorse at the end. I had the same reaction as most in the crowd. What is he doing? I was shocked, even though we were told he might not. It was the way he had tailored the speech. He pretended that he was going to endorse until the end.
He pretended that he was going to endorse until the end.
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And now he can pretend that he has a political future.
Curz apparently took a lesson from Comey: pretend something, then do the reverse at the end.
Trump was aware of what Cruz was doing or going to do.
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For what it’s worth department:
Cruz told Trump in a phone conversation two days ago that he would not endorse
him during his speech, according to Cruz aide Jason Johnson.
Still, Trump’s campaign invited Cruz to speak — in a headliner role, no less.
That decision was sure to spark a new round of second guessing about the campaign’s
management of the convention and preparedness for a bruising general election against
Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In a late night tweet, Trump said he had seen Cruz’s speech two hours before he
took the stage but let him speak anyway. “No big deal!” Trump wrote
http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/In-a-bumpy-coronation-Trump-wins-the-crown-8396547.php
He did that to keep the focus on him. He wanted people hanging on his every word with baited breath to see if he would endorse. He dropped the bomb at the end on purpose.