“Though the righteous may fall seven times, he rises again,” he said. Rafael Cruz gave a mournful address Thursday night in which he told his audience that Ted’s last chapter hadn’t been yet been written. Delegates lined up at the convention’s trade show to hand-write condolence notes to Cruz and his family. The convention was an unusually low-energy affair for a GOP gathering, with a lot of empty seats and a disorganized, bitter atmosphere. This is Cruz’s home base, and Texas’ party activists are the reason Cruz rose to prominence in the first place. That’s been one of the most common topics of discussion at the Republican Party of Texas convention. But how should he play his hand as Trump flails his way to the general election? So it’s a fair bet that he woke up the morning after the Indiana primary and started to make plans. He seems to have possessed a single-minded determination to become president from the time his classmates were falling off of monkey bars. But now, in defeat, he spoke about Ronald Reagan in 1976, the year the Gipper came close to beating Gerald Ford in the Republican primary but came just short of the finish line.Ĭruz’s ambition and self-regard is all-consuming.
For years, Cruz had been telling conservatives about Ronald Reagan in 1980, and the great reversal against Carter’s liberalism. Patrick MichelsĪpproximately three minutes and 30 seconds into Ted Cruz’s Indiana speech announcing the end of his 2016 presidential campaign, he announced the beginning of his 2020 presidential campaign - before he had even said the words that made his retreat from the field of battle official. Ted Cruz addresses the 2016 Republican Party of Texas convention.
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