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Cruz: I won't be a 'servile puppy dog' for Trump
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Thursday morning that he is refusing to be a "servile puppy dog" by endorsing Donald Trump after Trump attacked his family during the primaries. "I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father," he said hours after his controversial convention speech. "And that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say 'thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father,'" he said.
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York: Ted Cruz's gamble
By allowing Ted Cruz to speak without an assured endorsement, Donald Trump took a gamble with his convention. By refusing to endorse the nominee of his party, Cruz took a gamble with his political future. Trump lost his gamble when Cruz's speech ended with boos and bad feelings as the audience realized Cruz would do no more than urge them to "vote your conscience." Cruz's gamble is longer term: No one will know whether he won or lost until a few years from now.
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RNC spokesman agrees: Ted Cruz is an 'a-----e'
A top staffer at the Republican National Committee said he agrees that Sen. Ted Cruz's speech to the GOP convention Wednesday night makes him an "a---e." Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told reporters Wednesday night that he thinks Cruz is an "a---e." And when asked about that comment on Thursday, chief RNC strategist Sean Spicer said, "I'd probably use the same verbiage."
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Krauthammer: Cruz RNC speech was a 'suicide note'
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer said Ted Cruz's controversial speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday was "the most public suicide note in American history." "Cruz could have given that speech off campus and that would have been a statement of principle," he said. "But when you accept the invitation of the guy you're about to take down, even by omission [of his name in the speech], you've sort of crossed the boundary of, I don't know, maybe Trump would call it political correctness, or maybe you've crossed the boundary of simple elementary manners."
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Christie cools off: 'Last night was interesting, huh?'
After slamming Ted Cruz late Wednesday night over his refusal to endorse Donald Trump, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie shifted his focus Thursday morning to the man who beat him for the vice presidential position. "Well last night was interesting, huh?" Christie asked his home state's delegation at a breakfast on the fourth and final day of the GOP convention.
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Estonia defends NATO contribution after Trump comments
The president of Estonia took to Twitter on Thursday to defend its role in NATO after Donald Trump said he may not come to allies' aid as president if they didn't pay enough for their own defense. President Toomas Hendrick Ilves said that Estonia is one of only five NATO allies that meets the goal set two years ago to spend at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product on defense. He also pointed out that Estonia fought "with no caveats" in Afghanistan when the U.S. invoked Article 5, which requires NATO allies to respond to an attack on one country as if they themselves had been attacked.
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Imbecile or truth-teller? Military experts weigh in on Trump's NATO comments
Depending on which military expert you talk to, Donald Trump's comments in a New York Times interview suggesting U.S. defense of a NATO ally would depend on whether countries "fulfilled their obligations" is either a profoundly misguided statement that sends a dangerous message, or routine campaign rhetoric. "A deeply dangerous, uninformed, and ambiguous answer that will dismay our closest allies while providing great cheer in the Kremlin," said retired Adm. James Stavridis, now dean of the The Fletcher School at Tufts University. "I can hear Vladimir Putin chortling from here."
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Dem PAC charges Trump campaign with breaking finance laws
A Democratic super PAC has filed a federal complaint against Donald Trump's campaign with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday that charges the campaign with breaking campaign finance laws regarding Melania Trump's speechwriter. The complaint, filed by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, alleges five violations. They are: illegally accepting direct corporate contributions, accepting services from a volunteer that were actually compensated, use of the Trump corporate name or trademark to facilitate campaign contributions, illegal use of corporate facilities by a campaign volunteer and knowingly allowing volunteers to exceed the transportation expense limit.
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Delegates from two states say their rules petitions were blocked
Alaska and North Dakota delegates say party officials ignored their petitions demanding a roll call vote on new party rules on Monday. Those two states would have given the platoon of rebel delegates enough signatures to require a roll-call vote on the rules - a sign of party division that party leaders wanted to avoid.
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Carney: What happens to entitlement reform and free trade under Trump?
Moments after announcing the nomination of Donald Trump for president, House Speaker Paul Ryan, the GOP's leading policy voice for years, delivered a speech that didn't vary a word from what he would have delivered had Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz won the nomination. But Trump hasn't run as a conservative. Trump opposes to Ryan and most conservatives on entitlement reform and international trade. How will an economically conservative party deal with a nominee - and perhaps a president - who has given no signs of conservatism on many key issues?
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Don King says GOP wouldn't let him speak because he's an 'ex-convict'
Don King spoke out on the RNC floor Wednesday night, saying Donald Trump asked him to speak but the party said an ex-convict couldn't speak.
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Treasury: Brexit response shows Dodd-Frank is working
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Thursday that the financial market's resilience in the face of Britain's vote to leave the European Union is proof that the Dodd-Frank financial reform law has "without question" made the banking system safer and sounder. Britain's vote caused a huge overnight spike in the dollar and sent stocks plummeting. But the market quickly bounced back, and Lew said that was "fresh evidence that Wall Street Reform is working and that with deeper capital, greater transparency and detailed resolution plans, it can withstand far greater shocks than before the crisis."
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Brazil: Police arrest 10 for plotting Olympic terror attacks
Police in Brazil have arrested 10 people they say were planning acts of terrorism during this summer's Olympics, which kick off in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5. According to authorities, those arrested were not part of the Islamic State, but had tried to make contact with the terrorist group.
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