“I’d wager there are a lot of people who feel that way about Cruz after he used a platform given to him at Trump’s nominating convention to tell people to go vote for Hillary Clinton.”
I’d wager that you are wrong. Cruz did not tell people to vote for Hillary Clinton. He said “vote your conscience” - which I did by NOT voting for Hillary Clinton and holding my nose and voting for Trump. Trump has surprised me as he has many, many people. Texas is full of freedom loving individuals who are now strongly (as I am) supportive of Trump - who (like Cruz) were skeptical in the beginning. Cruz will get twice the support this time than he has ever gotten in a mid-term. Watch and see.
The Trump/Cruz campaign rally will be the biggest ever in the history of politics. If he held one in Coeur D’ Alene Idaho, it would go on record as drawing the largest population/state percentage ever. But that won’t happen, since 70% will vote for him anyway, and he needs to be in other states and cities like Detroit.
> He said “vote your conscience”
If there’s a single person who actually witnessed the speech and interpreted it as anything but a plea to vote for Clinton, I’d be shocked. It was obvious to all what he meant: “Don’t vote for Trump” - extreme sore loserness, and completely classless.
We can go back and review the FR reaction at the time if you like. To say he meant anything but “Vote Clinton over Trump” is historical revisionism. We all know what he meant, and that is exactly what he meant.