"There, there, Ted! Try again in 2024."
Posted on 05/10/2016 7:29:44 PM PDT by maggief
Ted Cruz repeatedly declined to endorse Donald Trump for president on Tuesday as he returned to the Senate for the first time since dropping out of the presidential race.
The Texas senator, who finished second to Trump in winning 565 delegates in the GOP primary, according to The New York Times’s delegate tracker, said there is plenty of time to make a decision on an endorsement.
“There are two and a half months until the Republican convention, six months until the general election,” Cruz told reporters crowded outside his Russell Building office. “There will be plenty of time for voters to make the determination who they’re going to support,” he continued, saying it would be incumbent on Trump to convince pro-Cruz voters to support him in the general election.
Cruz’s return to the Senate, where he has not cast a vote since February, came one week after he ripped Trump as an “utterly amoral” pathological liar, narcissist and bully. Later that night, Trump soundly defeated the Texan in Indiana’s primary, a loss that Cruz said cut off any path he had toward the GOP nomination.
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“If he has violated that public pledge, what pledges can we expect him to honor?”
Exactly. However, Cruz hasn’t violated the pledge yet; technically such a violation could occur only AFTER Trump is the official nominee, just so long as Cruz doesn’t come out now and explicitly say he’s NOT gonna support Trump as did hat fool Ryan and that putz Jeb Bush did.
What they’ve been peddling for decades is not free trade at all, and we need to stop calling it that.
It’s all been govt-managed trade with perks for connected cronies.
Then he ought to just say he plans on keeping his pledge
Cruz is stirring the pot with the intention of setting up a divisive fight at the convention. Over the platform, presumably. He’ll strut about portraying himself as the Principled Conservative (TM) while his surrogates continue to campaign for Hillary. Ted Cruz the man is repulsive. It’s all about him. The country be damned. He’s perfectly happy with Hillary making SCOTUS picks as long as he gets his shot in 2020.
What decision, Cruz swore he would endorse the winner!
I received 3 pieces of mail from CRUZ between yesterday and today.
I didn’t open any.
Too bad I threw it all directly into the trash.
I guess I’ll open the next mail I receive, just out of curiosity.
I expect him for find an excuse to resign in a year.
You win the Internet for the shortest sentence defining free trade. That and immigration, have been the biggest sell outs by the GOP for decades. My personal two biggest thorns in my butt, regarding the GOP the last 30 years.
Thanks.
Been annoyed the last few days that nobody seems to be correctly defining the nature of the problem re: “free” trade.
Exactly. Cruz, himself, has proven he is not an honorable man.
Nobody seems to reflect on the fact that there shouldn’t need to be a 1000+ page agreements in order for two consenting entities anywhere in the world to freely exchange goods with one another.
And the fact that such agreements do exist, and are negotiated by governments, means there’s probably something extremely fishy about them.
I’ve heard there’s going to be a Platform fight at the convention over BATHROOM policy
If that is the case, Ted needs to see a psychiatrist immediately. He is delusional and in a deep state of denial.
“The “Cruz should just release his delegates and then go kill himself” crowd is being deliberately obtuse.”
Then I must be “obtuse,” because I’d hand him the pistol and pay for the rounds! Cruz’ behavior goes way beyond a simple suspension of his campaign and sequestration of his pledged delegates. He should never hold public office again, anywhere in this country. He needs to go back to Canada or Cuba and never return to our shores.
No one, NO ONE expected Cruz to get as far as he did. Had Trump not come on the scene, he may not have won, but he would have done well.
Stay classy, Felito.
Cruz didn’t get his money from Goldman Sachs.
Trump has a lot in common with Casey Stengel. He was a great manager but you never got a straight answer out of the guy.
said there is plenty of time to make a decision on an endorsement.
He will not run for re-election. He never intended to stay in the Senate. For him as for Rubio, it has been a platform. I mean, why has the Senate become, after all? A place to make money.
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