{"id":2140474,"date":"2024-01-04T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hammers-cruz-as-senator-holds-back-endorsement-he-shouldnt-even-exist\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:43:04","slug":"trump-hammers-cruz-as-senator-holds-back-endorsement-he-shouldnt-even-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hammers-cruz-as-senator-holds-back-endorsement-he-shouldnt-even-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes Cruz, refuses to endorse him: &#8216;He shouldn&#8217;t exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-hammers-cruz-as-senator-holds-back-endorsement-he-shouldnt-even-exist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2140474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former \u2062President Donald Trump Upset with Republican \u200bPoliticians<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump is \u200dreportedly furious with Republican politicians who have refused to \u200bendorse him in\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: DeSantis Beats Trump In 2024 Straw Poll At Top Conservative Summit\">2024 presidential race<\/a>, including his former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-vows-to-travel-to-alaska-to-campaign-against-disloyal-very-bad-senator\/\" title=\"Trump Vows To Travel To Alaska To Campaign Against \u2018Disloyal, Very Bad Senator\u2019\">primary rival<\/a>, Senator\u200b Ted\u2062 Cruz (R-TX).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ted \u2014 he shouldn&#8217;t even exist,&#8221; Trump expressed, according to a source who overheard the comments. &#8220;I \u200ccould&#8217;ve \u2064destroyed him. I kind of did destroy him in 2016, if you think about it. But then I let him live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cruz ran against Trump in the 2016 GOP presidential primary, winning in Iowa and some other\u200d states but \u2062ultimately losing \u200bthe Republican nomination to Trump. It wasn&#8217;t until September, two months after the Republican\u200c National Convention and less than two months before\u200b the\u200b election, that Cruz\u200c finally endorsed Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump believes that simply saying \u2063they &#8220;support&#8221; him is not enough for politicians, as he is more interested in securing formal endorsements.\u200c He even boasted about receiving the endorsement of House Majority \u200dWhip Tom Emmer (R-MN), \u2062stating that\u2062 &#8220;they\u2063 always bend the knee.&#8221; \u2063Trump&#8217;s previous criticism of Emmer had hindered his \u200cchances of becoming \u2063House speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of endorsements from some Republican politicians, \u200bTrump remains the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, leading in most polls and accumulating more endorsements \u2063than any other Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has reached out to Cruz&#8217;s office for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What is Donald \u200cTrump&#8217;s belief about his ability to defeat Senator Ted Cruz in the 2016 GOP presidential \u2064primary and why did he choose not to?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200cFormer President Donald Trump is \u2064experiencing frustration and anger towards Republican\u2064 politicians who\u200c have chosen \u2062not to endorse \u200chim for the upcoming\u200d 2024 presidential\u2062 race. Among \u2063those who have drawn Trump&#8217;s ire is his former primary rival, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).<\/p>\n<p>According to a source who \u200boverheard his comments, Trump expressed his\u200d disdain \u200dfor Cruz, saying, &#8220;Ted -\u200b he shouldn&#8217;t even exist. I\u200c could&#8217;ve destroyed him. I kind of did destroy\u2064 him in 2016, if you think about it. But then \u200dI let him live.&#8221; This statement reflects Trump&#8217;s belief that he had\u2064 the power\u2062 to defeat\u200b Cruz\u200b in the 2016 GOP presidential primary but chose not to.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&#8217;s campaign against Trump in the 2016 primary garnered some success, as he won the\u200b Iowa caucus and several other\u200d states. However, Trump secured the Republican nomination, and it wasn&#8217;t until September, just two months before the 2016 election, that Cruz finally endorsed Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While Cruz \u200band other politicians may claim to &#8220;support&#8221; Trump, he is seeking more than just verbal agreement. Trump desires formal endorsements from these individuals, \u200cviewing them as a greater display of\u2064 loyalty.\u2064 He even boasted about \u2063obtaining the endorsement of House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), stating that &#8220;they always bend the knee.&#8221; It&#8217;s worth noting that Trump\u2062 had previously criticized Emmer, potentially\u2063 impacting his chances \u200bof \u2064becoming House speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of endorsements from certain Republican politicians, Trump remains the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. He is leading in most polls and has accumulated more endorsements than any other Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In light of Trump&#8217;s dissatisfaction, The Washington Examiner has reached out to Cruz&#8217;s office for comment. It remains to be seen how this rift \u200dbetween former President \u200bTrump and some Republican politicians will impact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-ramaswamy-and-haley-get-wall-street-donations-over-trump-report\/\" title=\"Report: DeSantis, Ramaswamy, and Haley receive Wall Street contributions instead of Trump.\">2024 presidential \u2062race<\/a> and the party&#8217;s \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-racists-do-when-caught-with-racist-policies-gop-congressman-rips-nfl-rooney-rule\/\" title=\"\u2018What Racists Do When Caught With Racist Policies\u2019: GOP Congressman Rips NFL, Rooney Rule\">unity moving forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump is said to be angry with Republican politicians, including Senator Ted Cruz, who have not endorsed him for the 2024 presidential race. Trump privately expressed his frustration, even suggesting that Cruz should not be in existence, according to a report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2140475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}