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Republicans boo off Ted Cruz for not endorsing Trump

Published on 21 July, 2016
Republicans boo off Ted Cruz for not endorsing Trump
Cleveland, July 21 (IANS) 

Ted Cruz, Donald Trump's former rival, was booed off the Republican top stage on Wednesday night after he withheld his endorsement of the New York billionaire as the nominee.

"Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution," Ted Cruz said at the party's convention, instead of urging Republicans to rally behind Trump, reports Xinhua news agency.

The language, which echoed statements from the 'Never Trump' movement, triggered boos and chants of "Trump! Trump!" from the audience.

"We’re not fighting for one particular candidate or one particular campaign," Cruz said.

"We deserve leaders who stand for principle, unite us all behind shared values, cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect, from everybody."

Cruz left the stage putting on a brave face, wrapping up his remarks and thanking the audience while Trump entered the venue and gave his formal rival a thumbs-up, sarcastically venting his anger.

Cruz came second to Trump during the Republican primaries.

The two men have shared a notoriously hostile rapport following a primary battle that grew uncharacteristically nasty, with Trump labelling Cruz a "liar".

On the final day of Cruz's campaign in May, he charged Trump with being "a pathological liar", "a narcissist" and "utterly immoral", the Guardian reported.


Writer apologises for copying phrases for Melania Trump\'s speech

Washington, July 21 

An aide for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took responsibility for copying portions of First Lady Michelle Obama's 2008 address for Melania Trump's convention speech on Monday.

A statement distributed on Wednesday by the campaign featured an apology from Meredith McIver and an offer of resignation. The statement attributed to McIver said the Republican presidential nominee had rejected her offer to resign, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Staff writer Meredith McIver, who called herself "a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family," said in a statement released by the Trump campaign that while working with Melania Trump on her First Lady speech, the two discussed many people who inspired Melania Trump.

"A person she (Melania Trump) has always liked is Michelle Obama," Xinhua quoted McIver as saying. 

"Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech," she said.

According to McIver, she did not check Michelle Obama's 2008 speech.

"This was my mistake and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Michelle Obama," said McIver.

The statement came two days after embarrassing similarities were revealed between parts of Melania Trump's speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention on Monday night and Michelle Obama's 2008 convention speech.

The plagiarism charges threatened to overshadow Trump's official ascent to the standard-bearer of a major US political party and came just hours after the Trump campaign fiercely denied the overlap.

Shortly after the release of the statement, Trump pointed out one positive side of the episode in his twitter post that his wife's speech "got more publicity than any in the history of politics especially if you believe that all press is good press".

In another twitter post, Trump criticized the US media for spending more time "doing a forensic analysis of Melania's speech than the FBI spent on Hillary's emails".

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mathew v zacharia 2016-07-21 08:06:00
Ted Cruz and his personal vendetta should not have been there. His future leadership in the Republican party is tainted. 
Mathew V. Zacharia. Former Republican party Committee member of Orange County. NY.
vayanakaran 2016-07-21 12:30:43
Most of the Republicans are racists, egocentric little educated.
trump and his family is rotten. he himself said uneducated and low educated follow him.
shame on all and especially Malayalees who vote for him. 
It is because of years of being slave to white.
Prophet Mathew 2016-07-21 15:03:37
Trump is God's cruse on Republican party because they try to crucify a good president Obama. Trump will destroy Republican part and he will get destroyed by himself
Observer 2016-07-21 20:26:25
I was a Republican committee member too but quit after noticing the racism towards the colored people. But people those who are enslaved to the White people cannot break the shackle they have. They still hand around. 
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