After getting booed during his address to the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, Ted Cruz addressed the Texas delegation at a breakfast in Cleveland this morning where he said Donald Trump never asked for his endorsement.
"He didn't ask me to endorse and, indeed, three days ago I talked on the phone with him and told him, ‘I'm not going to endorse you,’" Cruz said, defending his non-endorsement speech.
In beginning his remarks today, he said, “I recognize there are some folks here and elsewhere at the convention who are not happy with me. That’s OK."
He called it "troubling" that he was booed by "partisans" when he told the convention to vote for candidates in whom they believe.
“What I wanted to do last night is lay out the principles I believe we stand for as Republicans,” he went on to say. “In that speech last night I did not say a single negative word against Donald Trump.”
Cruz vowed not to say anything negative against Trump going forward.
The boos began Wednesday night during Cruz’s speech after it became clear he would not be endorsing Trump as the party’s nominee, urging people to vote their conscience.
Cruz would not say for certain at the breakfast today whether he would vote for Trump but did say he will not vote for Hillary Clinton.
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