[headstamp 2]

Interesting.

[Principled]

What does it say? I can’t see it on my device

[UCANSEE2]

That was during Gingrich’s speech.

[choctaw man]

Weasel.

[KansasConservative1]

This was what Newt said, following the Cruz speech. During Newts speech, he “paraphrased” Cruz’s speech. I think this is from Newts teleprompter.

[Donglalinger]

Newt speech

[gdani]

I interpreted Gingrich's remark as suggesting to the crowd Cruz did, in fact, implicitly endorse Trump (while knowing Cruz did not an offer an explicit endorsement).

[butlerweave]

and if Trump turns out to be a Jackass in an Elephant suit

[Jewbacca]

That was from Newt’s speech.

Cruz gave Trump the speech in part a couple days before and the complete speech earlier in the day.

It wasn’t a surprise. That was why the Texas delegation was moved from the floor and the NY delegation to the front.

[stockpirate]

This post is completely misleading as this is from Newts speech not Cruz.

[sarasota]

That’s the script he gave to Trump for review. Head fake.

[CAluvdubya]

Lyin’ Ted proved Trump right last night.

[EBH]

Interesting indeed. This convention is full of surprises.

So, one way to take Cruz is as a classless sore loser.

The other way is he refused to compromise his beliefs, principles, and ??? listened to Glenn Beck way too much.

It is possible to give your word/pledge and then later regret having done that...and take it back. Cruz has his reasons for pulling the stunt that he did and right now I truly don’t think we have a lot of room to judge him.

Whatever his reasons are, I hope for his sake he is well with his heart and soul.

[GBA]

Did Cruz congratulate Trump for winning the nomination?

I heard him say in his speech that he wanted to congratulate Donald Trump for winning the nomination, but I never heard him actually do it.

He's a funny guy, that Cubanadian, so I'm never quite sure what to make of him.

[Venkman]

When Cruz spoke this morning, doubling down on his treachery, he looked like he had blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his ... wherever.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Cruz is done on the national stage. He is toast. I voted for him in our state primary but will never vote for him again.

[mmichaels1970]

I don't think it does. At least my first reaction to the teleprompter shot that was posted last night was that it was simply a part of Newt's strategy to turn Cruz's words around on him. Which is what Newt did.

“So to paraphrase Ted Cruz, if you want to protect the Constitution this fall, there’s only one possible way and that’s to vote the Trump-Pence ticket.”

He didn't go word for word by what the teleprompter said, but I'm not sure if he didn't rephrase what he was reading from the prompter.

Maybe Newt expected an endorsement. My gut feeling is that he was looking at a bullet point on the teleprompter and expounded on it or changed it a bit.

[Tau Food]

Cruzy. Somebody believed that a very proud Texan male would endorse a candidate who called him Lyin' Ted and attacked his family? Who thought that?

A better theory is that Trump believes that what happened works to Trump's advantage.

[zzwhale]

SORE LOSER

[sarasota]

Then that blasts the Limbaugh theory that Trump coordinated his entrance toward the end of Cruz’s speech. Clearly someone on his staff had read it.