Republican Sen. Ted Cruz spoke at the GOP convention Wednesday, and when he did he turned nearly the entirety of the Republican Party against him by refusing to endorse GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer spoke Thursday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” about what consequences Cruz will have — and it’s not good.
“Last night what Cruz delivered was the longest suicide note in American political history. This morning he added an addendum because last night … the theme of it was, ‘It’s a matter of principle as a conservative and as a constitutionalist he could not endorse Donald Trump,’” he said.
“And at the beginning of this thing this morning he said I’m going to watch and wait and see if I can support him,” Krauthammer explained. “And then he lost it. He blew it. We just saw it. It was towards the end of the event and he was asked a question about endorsing.”
Of course, for all the calculating he was about to do, he had submitted his speech to Trump already — the campaign knew exactly what Cruz was going to say, and he let him say it, because he knew what it would mean.
“He said, you can see him calculating, should I really give the reason. And then he said it’s all personal. This is about the wife and the father. And then what that does, he’s a calculating guy. What that does is it totally undid the great political philosophical reasons he offered last night,” he said.
People claim that Cruz couldn’t endorse Trump because of his conscience, but Krauthammer destroyed that entirely.
“That was already in jeopardy because, remember, for the first 6 months of the campaign he was especially nice to Trump,” he went on.
“He was drafting in the wake of the head car and everybody was attacking Trump over the McCain comments. He didn’t. So this was not a matter of principle, it was already in question as of last night, but as of this morning I think he’s destroyed his political career,” Krauthammer concluded.