Posted on 07/19/2016 11:45:20 PM PDT by Pinkbell
CNN had two different people on who said Ted Cruz will not be endorsing Cruz in his speech. The one reporter said that Ted Cruz anticipates running for President in 2020 if Trump loses and wants to show his sympathies with the Never Trump movement who has supported him.
This is just as I feared when Ted was asked to speak. Trump was kind enough to ask him, but I worried that Ted would use this speech to pad his own resume, to preach to his base, to audition for 2020. Ted should not be permitted to use this speech for his own ambitions.
Ted Cruz has allowed the Never Trump movement, with many of the members (at least the ones I see on Twitter) as Cruz supporters, to fester. He allowed the division and the attempts to free the delegates, ignoring the will of the people. That chaos on the floor the other day? Led by Cruz allies/delegates!
Ted Cruz has refused to honor a pledge that he signed, that he would have expected Trump to honor. Ted knows that his endorsement may encourage some of his supporters to vote for Trump. Ted also knows it might push some of his supporters away, the ones who would call it a betrayal. Ted is staying with the ones who would call it a betrayal.
If Ted is a true conservative, 4 years of Hillary and her stacking the court would be unthinkable. If Ted is a true Republican, he would want a Republican to win. It seems he is putting his political ambitions first. It's good for Ted Cruz (in his mind) if Trump doesn't win, but it's certainly not good for our country. I don't think it will be good for Ted either. He just doesn't realize now that 14 million Trump voters won't forget how he conducted himself.
Ted's spot should be revoked in an ideal world. Unfortunately, I think the media fallout if Trump revokes and party division with Cruz supporters who are reluctantly voting for Trump would be a problem at this point. He'll be allowed to speak, and I think he should have never been offered the slot.
Maybe CNN has absolutely blown this and will have egg on their face tomorrow. Maybe their sources will be wrong or maybe Ted will change his mind. If Ted does endorse Trump, I think opinions on him would improve.
I am glad I had CSPAN on. No interruptions from idiot political spin hacks.
As I posted on an earlier thread about Kasich, a few years into Trump’s administration, when the economy is roaring and national pride has returned, Cruz will tell an interviewer, “You know, a lot of people forget I supported him all along.”
Welcome to the elite club who made all the professional experts across the landscape appear as ignorant no nothing arrogant amateurs.
the teleprompter version will be reviewed but what he actually says cannot be. strike him now. spike lee did his job? now kill it.
If Trump loses due to #nevertrump, there’s no chance Trump supporters will support Cruz
Errrrr...HE ISN’T ELIGIBLE!!!
This may work in Trump’s favor. There are those who are fencesitters who will view this as an olive branch and instead of Cruz being a good sport and working to beat Hillary, he will be seen as a petulant child throwing a temper tantrum.
Cruz’s career is finished, he just hasn’t realized it yet.
Absolutely.
Actually, she was on from 1-3 this morning with Don Lemon on CNN. I watched the speeches on CSPAN too.
You know, I too, hope CNN is wrong. If CNN is wrong and Cruz endorses Trump tomorrow, serve me crow. However I have rather suspected this would be the Cruz ploy. I am so thoroughly disgusted with this dishonorable wretched manipulating liar who would put his own stubborn pride and career ahead of the country.
I remember all the debates here with the Cruzer holdouts who even this week told us the #NeverTrump delegates were not Cruz people...and who assured us in no uncertain terms that Cruz would endorse Mr. Trump once Trump becomes the NOMINEE...they took great pains to parse the words “presumptive” nominee versus “actual” nominee. They said the pledge was to endorse the NOMINEE, not the PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE.
Well, Cruzers, Mr. Trump is in fact the GOP Nominee. What say you now????
If Teddy pulls this crap, perhaps the last few remaining Cruzers finally wake up and see this liar and FRAUD for exactly who and what he REALLY is; a POS!
It’ doesn’t matter, as the Donald said in one of the debates..
I’m way ahead of you (to cruz), she’d cream you, paraphrase.
For many reasons, besides the fact that he is NOT a NBCer!
Classy!!!
You shan’t have to eat cold crow; TRAITOR TEDDY won’t change his colors and become a human. Once a POS...always a POS!
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a time machine and go back to a year ago last May and say that at the RNC 2016, many Freeport would boycot Ted Cruz’s convention speech and applaud both Chris Christy and Rudy Guliani’s.
I’d be zotted in seconds.
Hmm, might last an hour if I said not one Bush would bother showing up, that Mitt Romney would only be there in spirit of supporting Ted Cruz due to a common enemy, and that there would be a standing ovation for Bob Dole.
I have always thought Rafael has a time machine with the wrong dates punched into it.
Guys all over the place, we’ll see tomorrow.
Doesn’t help his dad was buddies with Oswald.
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