RNC Crowd Chants ‘We Want Trump!’ During Ted Cruz’s Speech (VIDEO)

UNITED STATES - JULY 20: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday July 20, 2016. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declined to endorse Donald Trump during his Republican National Convention speech Wednesday, instead urging voters to vote with their conscience, a call that prompted many in the crowd to chant “We want Trump!” over him.

Cruz’s speech appeared to be going over well until he echoed the #NeverTrump movement’s “vote your conscience” refrain (Cruz only said Trump’s name once, to congratulate him at the top of the speech, but not to endorse him.)

“If you love our country, and love your children as much as I know that you do, 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,” he said.

After that line, people began to boo, scream over him and chat “we want Trump!”

Cruz attempted to brush off the growing chaos and chants, but the crowd continued as they began to boo him.

“I appreciate the enthusiasm of the New York delegation,” he said.

As Cruz continued his speech, the crowd booed and chanted louder and the screens behind him began to flicker. At the end of Cruz’s speech, Donald Trump appeared, seemingly unplanned, in the conventional hall, garnering cheers. C-SPAN cameras followed Trump’s entrance rather than the end of Cruz’s speech.

Watch below:

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  1. Avatar for theod theod says:

    This is Cruz’s way of telling us 1) that he expects Trump to lose and that 2) he will be next in line in 2020. Or sooner if Trump chokes on a pretzel or gets a heart attack.

  2. It’s the RNC Nature Channel, with David Attenborough narrating as two thousand zika mosquitos boo a cockroach.

  3. Wow, a cyst on a tumor…

  4. Or, a gang of dung beetles rolling their turd balls into the abyss.

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