Kendal Unruh, a Colorado Republican delegate who led the Free the Delegates Movement, was unswayed by Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) Friday endorsement of Donald Trump and took to Twitter to make her position clear.
“Cruz is not my conscience,” she wrote. “I will still be voting my conscience.”
Cruz is not my conscience. I will still be voting my conscience.
— Kendal Unruh (@ConscienceVoter) September 24, 2016
In his primetime speech at the Republican National Convention in July, Cruz conspicuously declined to endorse Trump onstage, drawing boos from the crowd as security escorted his wife, Heidi, from the venue.
“Vote your conscience,” he urged, in an apparent nod to a clause written and proposed by Unruh before the convention.
The “conscience clause” was proposed by a group of anti-Trump delegates, led by Unruh, who hoped to change party rules so that delegates could “unbind” themselves and support a candidate of their choosing. It was voted down by the Rules Committee a week before the convention.
On Friday, Cruz abandoned his principled stand against Trump to give the GOP nominee a full-throated endorsement, citing his own convention speech.
“After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump,” Cruz wrote in a post on his Facebook page. “And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.”
