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The question of the night for political junkies from coast to coast … to coast.<\/p>\n

Will U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz endorse Donald J. Trump when he stands in front of the Republican National Convention crowd?<\/p>\n

If I could predict anything, I’d say ain’t no way, no how, no never mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cruz has called Trump everything but the Devil Himself.<\/p>\n

Pathologist liar; narcissist “the likes of which I’ve never seen”; a whole plethora of nasty names.<\/p>\n

He challenged Trump’s courage after the GOP frontrunner put a tweet out there that poked malicious fun at Heidi Cruz<\/em>, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

Having declared that by any reasonable measure, Cruz wouldn’t ever endorse Donald Trump, we have the following:<\/p>\n

Rick Perry endorsed\u00a0Trump after calling him a “cancer on conservatism; Chris Christie endorsed Trump after saying he is “unfit” to become president; Marco Rubio has all but endorsed Trump after calling him a “con man.”<\/p>\n

Cruz’s speech tonight is ginning up a bunch of speculation. Some sources say there might be an endorsement forthcoming; others say there won’t be an endorsement, but that he’ll express “support” for the nominee and for the party.<\/p>\n

Still others have suggested that given Cruz’s fervent support among many of the convention delegates that he might deliver a\u00a0“Dream Shall Never Die” sort of message, a la the kind of speech Ted Kennedy gave during the 1980 Democratic convention after losing that fight to President Carter.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/07\/rnc-2016-ted-cruz-donald-trump-endorsement-225850<\/a><\/p>\n

Some conservatives want Cruz to endorse Trump.<\/p>\n

I’ll tune in later tonight to see if Cruz prefers to stand by a nominee he cannot stand or will stand by the “conservative principles” that mean nothing to the guy who’s going to lead the party into the election campaign.<\/p>\n\n

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The question of the night for political junkies from coast to coast … to coast. Will U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz endorse Donald J. Trump when he stands in front of the Republican National Convention crowd? If I could predict anything, I’d say ain’t no way, no how, no never mind. Cruz has called Trump everything … Continue reading Cruz endorsement might not arrive<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[965,1424,5647,2491,2892,3951,4537,4538],"class_list":["post-16046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-chris-christie","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-convention","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-marco-rubio","tag-rick-perry","tag-ted-cruz","tag-ted-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16048,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions\/16048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}