Cruz Fails to Endorse Trump, Gets Booed

Ted Cruz

…As he appeared on stage, Cruz basked in a minute-long standing ovation. Cruz finished second to Trump in the crowded Republican primary campaign and congratulated the GOP nominee on his victory.

But as close as Cruz came to saying he wanted Trump to win the White House came when he said: "I want to see the principles that our party believes in prevail in November."

Cruz didn't tell the convention crowd that he plans to vote for Trump. Nor did he ask his supporters, hundreds of whom encouraged him to run for president in four years at an event on Wednesday afternoon, to vote for the newly minted Republican nominee.…

Haven't heard the speech myself yet. I was a Cruz supporter from the moment he announced, but after he seemed to keep shooting himself in the foot, drifting off-message, and not being dynamic enough. Now this? Trump deserved to win.