Cleveland, Ohio (WBAP/KLIF News) – Senator Ted Cruz says he has no regrets about his speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. Cruz congratulated Donald Trump on securing the party’s nomination, but he did not offer an endorsement.
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father,” Cruz told the Texas delegation Thursday.
Cruz says he told Trump three days ago that he would not endorse him.
In March, Trump tweeted a picture of his wife’s face next to Cruz’ wife and the phrase, “The images are worth a thousand words.” In May, Trump said Cruz’ father was with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort says every Republican hopeful besides Cruz held to a pledge to endorse the Republican nomination.
“Senator Cruz, the strict constitutionalist, chose not to accept the strict terms of the pledge that he signed,” Manafort says. “As far as the contract was concerned, he was the one in violation, not anybody else.”
“The day that was abrogated was the day this became personal,” Cruz says.
After the speech, Trump would tweet that Cruz “got booed off the stage.”
Cruz says he said nothing negative about Donald Trump. He says he was booed for telling people to vote their conscience.
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