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Thunderous boos for Cruz
for refusing to endorse Trump
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Stubbornly
undercutting
calls for Republican unity,
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused
to endorse Donald Trump
Wednesday night as he
addressed the GOP conven-
tion, ignoring thunderous
boos from furious delegates
as he encouraged Ameri-
cans to simply “vote your
conscience” in November.
In a surreal moment,
Trump
unexpectedly
walked into the arena just as
Cruz was wrapping up his
remarks. Delegates chanted
Trump’s name and implored
Cruz to voice his support for
the businessman, to no avail.
“Vote for candidates up
and down the ticket who
you trust to defend our
freedom and to be faithful
to the Constitution,” Cruz
said. While he backed
some of Trump’s policy
proposals, including building
a wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border, he mentioned the
GOP nominee by name only
once.
Cruz’s deiance ripped
open party divisions anew, on
the summer’s biggest polit-
ical stage. Trump allies were
infuriated, including New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie,
who said Cruz’s decision
was “totally selish.”
The stunning moment
upended what was shaping
up to be the convention’s
most successful night, and
overshadowed
Indiana
Gov. Mike Pence’s national
convention debut as Trump’s
running mate.
“You have nominated a
man for president who never
quits,” Pence said. “Until
now, he’s had to do it all by
himself against all odds but
this week, with this united
party, he’s got backup.”
Trump’s campaign had
hoped Pence’s address
would quiet Republican
doubts about Trump. Unlike
Trump, Pence is an expe-
rienced politician, favorite
of conservatives and ally of
party leaders.
Taking the stage shortly
after Cruz, former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich
tried to explain away the
senator’s lack of support for
the nominee.
“Ted Cruz said you can
vote your conscience for
anyone who will uphold the
Constitution,” he said. “In
this election there is only one
candidate who will uphold
the Constitution.”
It was unclear why
Trump’s campaign invited
Cruz to speak — in a head-
lining role, no less — without
getting him to agree to an
AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Delegates hold signs as Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin
speaks during the third day of the Republican National
Convention in Cleveland on Wednesday.
Hating on Hillary:
Republican convention
down and dirty
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walks from the podium after speaking during the Republi-
can National Convention, Wednesday in Cleveland.
“A vote for
anyone other
than Donald
Trump in No-
vember is a
vote for Hillary
Clinton.”
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
People react to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., as Cruz
addresses the delegate during the third day session
of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland,
Wednesday.
endorsement. The decision
was sure to spark a new round
of second guessing about the
campaign’s management of
the convention and prepared-
ness for a bruising general
election against Democrat
Hillary Clinton.
Trump did get a boost
from Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker, one of the 16 Repub-
licans whose White House
dreams were vanquished
during the primary. Still,
Walker suggested he was
driven as much by a desire
to keep Clinton out of the
White House as admiration
for his party’s nominee.
“Let me be clear: a vote
for anyone other than Donald
Trump in November is a vote
for Hillary Clinton,” Walker
said.
After two nights of
low-energy speeches, the
crowd packed into the
arena was noticeably more
energetic Wednesday night,
dancing in the aisles and
waving
signs
reading,
“America Deserves Better
Than Hillary.”
Lynne Patton, a longtime
Trump employee, spoke
movingly about the business-
man’s strong family. Patton,
who is black, said she was
proud to support Trump “not
just in spite of the color of
my skin, but in fact because
of the color of my skin.”
Trump’s campaign had
hoped that by the conven-
tion’s end, voters would look
past the gathering’s rough
start, including the plagiarism
charge involving Melania
Trump’s opening address.
After 36 hours of denials, the
campaign moved to put the
matter to rest Wednesday,
releasing a statement from
a speechwriter who took
blame for including lines
from a Michelle Obama
speech in the remarks.
Trump, who will address
the convention Thursday
night, cheered on the night’s
proceedings via Twitter.
After Walker’s remarks,
Trump
wrote,
“Great
speech!”
Cruz was harshly critical
of Trump in the waning
weeks of their primary
battle, calling the busi-
— Scott Walker,
Governor of Wisconsin
nessman a “pathological
liar” and “utterly amoral.”
He arrived in Cleveland with
an eye on his own political
future, holding a rally with
hundreds of supporters who
greeted him with chants of
“2020” — suggesting Cruz’s
backers have no interest
in seeing Trump become a
two-term president.
In his convention address,
Cruz spoke at length about
the recent stretch of violence
across the country. He urged
Americans to ight for the
families of ive police ofi-
cers killed in his hometown
of Dallas, as well as the
family of Alton Sterling, a
black man killed by police in
Louisiana.
Wednesday afternoon,
Pence and his family, along
with Trump’s adult children,
greeted the billionaire as his
helicopter landed by Cleve-
land’s picturesque lakefront.
Eric Trump, the candi-
date’s 32-year-old son, took
the stage near the evening’s
end, praising his father as
other family members had
earlier in the week.
“Vote for the one candi-
date who does not need this
job,” he said.
CLEVELAND (AP) —
Liar. Garbage. Lock her up.
Republicans at their
national convention are
putting Hillary Clinton on
mock trial, declaring her
guilty and issuing sentences
that include death by iring
squad, in a remarkable
display of political rhetoric
gone wild. Even some
Clinton haters say the vitriol
has gone too far.
The focus on Clinton has
sometimes upstaged what’s
supposed to be a weeklong
celebration and promotion
of Donald Trump. Instead of
extolling the virtues of their
nominee, Republicans have
turned to increasingly crass
slurs against his opponent.
One GOP delegate and
adviser to Trump on veter-
an’s issues, Al Baldasaro,
took it a step further than the
rest. He dubbed her a “piece
of garbage” and suggested
a punishment for alleged
inaction during the 2012
Benghazi, Libya, attacks that
left four Americans dead.
“Hillary Clinton should be
put in the iring line and shot
for treason,” the New Hamp-
shire state lawmaker said in a
radio interview Tuesday.
Trump
spokeswoman
Hope Hicks said that Trump
and his campaign don’t agree
with Baldasaro’s comment.
The U.S. Secret Service said
it was investigating.
On the streets of Cleve-
land, demeaning buttons for
sale say “Life’s a Bitch —
Don’t Elect One” and “Trump
vs. Tramp.” Others have
been even harsher and more
vulgar, with crude references
to parts of Clinton’s body.
Tony
Ensminger,
a
63-year-old selling buttons
outside the arena, insisted
“this was mild” compared to
what Democrats said about
former President George W.
Bush.
Visceral
disdain
for
Clinton has been palpable
all week on the convention
loor, where the go-to chant
is “Lock her up.” One former
GOP presidential candidate,
Ben Carson, drew a connec-
tion between Clinton and
Lucifer, and Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell
of Kentucky said scandals
follow Clinton and her
husband “like lies.”
It’s no surprise that
Republicans are emphasizing
Clinton’s weaknesses more
than Trump’s strengths. The
GOP’s strategy for winning
in November rests in part on
the hope that voters dislike
the Democrat more than the
Republican.
Fifty-seven percent of
Americans in a July Associ-
ated Press-GfK poll said they
viewed Clinton unfavorably,
as did 64 percent of indepen-
dents who don’t lean toward
either party. Slightly more,
63 percent overall, viewed
Trump unfavorably; 62
percent of independents.
It’s those independents
that Trump’s campaign hopes
it can peel off — if it can
keep up a steady drumbeat
of negativity about Clinton.
Three-quarters of voters in
the poll said their pick for
president is motivated by
a desire to cast their ballot
against either Clinton or
Trump.
Still, the criticism has
triggered a backlash from
some Republicans who say
it’s beyond the pale.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a
Trump critic who’s skipping
the GOP convention, tweeted
that Republicans “can make
the case that she shouldn’t
be elected without jumping
the shark.” And Bill Pickle,
a South Carolina delegate
and talk radio host, said
those doing the name-calling
“sound and act like demons.”
But most Republicans
seem unperturbed.
BRIEFLY
U.S. goes after
more than $1B
taken from
Malaysian fund
WASHINGTON (AP)
— The United States moved
Wednesday to recover more
than $1 billion that federal
oficials say was stolen
from a Malaysian economic
development fund and that
was used for high-end real
estate, fancy artwork and
production of the Hollywood
ilm, “The Wolf of Wall
Street.”
The diverted funds paid
for luxury properties in
New York and California,
a $35 million private jet
and expensive paintings
by Vincent Van Gogh and
Claude Monet, according
to federal government
complaints that demand the
recovery and forfeiture of
the ill-gotten assets.
The complaints, iled
in Los Angeles, allege a
complex money laundering
scheme that the Justice
Department says was
intended to enrich top-level
oficials of a government-
controlled Malaysian wealth
fund.
That fund, known
informally as 1MDB, was
created in 2009 by the
Malaysian government
with the goal of promoting
economic development
projects in the Asian nation.
Instead, oficials at the
fund diverted more than
$3.5 billion over the next
several years through a
web of shell companies and
bank accounts in Singapore,
Switzerland, Luxembourg
and the U.S., the complaints
allege. About $1.3 billon
raised through purportedly
legitimate bond offerings
was swiftly transferred to
a Swiss bank account and,
from there, distributed to
fund oficials for their own
personal beneit.
Turkey declares
3-month state of
emergency after
failed coup
ANKARA, Turkey (AP)
— Turkey’s president on
Wednesday declared a three-
month state of emergency
following a botched coup
attempt, declaring he
would rid the military of
the “virus” of subversion
and giving the government
sweeping powers to expand
a crackdown that has already
included mass arrests and
the closure of hundreds of
schools.
President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, who was accused
of autocratic conduct
before the insurrection,
said the measure would
counter threats to Turkish
democracy. Possibly
anticipating investor jitters,
Erdogan criticized Standard
& Poor’s for downgrading
its credit rating for Turkey
deeper into “junk” status
and said the country
would remain inancially
disciplined.
The president did not
announce details, but the
security measure could
facilitate longer detentions
for many of the nearly
10,000 people who have
been rounded up since
loyalist security forces
and protesters quashed the
rebellion that started Friday
night and was over by
Saturday.
“This measure is in no
way against democracy, the
law and freedoms,” Erdogan
said in a national televised
address after a meeting
with Cabinet ministers and
security advisers.
The state of emergency
announcement needs to be
published in a state gazette
and lawmakers have to
approve it for it to take
effect, according to analysts.
Turkey imposed
emergency rule in the
southeast of Turkey in 1987,
allowing oficials to set
curfews, issue search and
arrest warrants and restrict
gatherings as the security
forces fought Kurdish rebels.
The emergency rule was
gradually lifted by 2002.
The president suggested
military purges would
continue. Turkey also said
it would close more than
600 private schools and
dormitories following the
attempted coup, spurring
fears that the state’s move
against perceived enemies is
undermining key institutions
in the country.
Erdogan’s government
said it has ired nearly
22,000 education ministry
workers, mostly teachers,
taken steps to revoke the
licenses of 21,000 other
teachers at private schools
and sacked or detained half a
dozen university presidents
in a campaign to root out
alleged supporters of a U.S.-
based Muslim cleric blamed
for the failed insurrection.
The targeting of
education ties in with
Erdogan’s belief that the
cleric, Fethullah Gulen,
whose followers run
a network of schools
worldwide, seeks to iniltrate
the Turkish education
system and other institutions
in order to bend the country
to his will. The cleric’s
movement, which espouses
moderation and multi-faith
harmony, says it is a
scapegoat.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP)
— Texas’ strict voter ID
law discriminates against
minorities and the poor and
must be weakened before
the November elections, a
federal appeals court ruled
Wednesday, following
claims that at least a
half-million registered voters
could have struggled to cast
a ballot.
The ruling was a striking
election-year victory for
President Barack Obama’s
administration, which took
the unusual step of bringing
the U.S. Justice Department
into Texas to ight the case.
U.S. Attorney General
Loretta Lynch said the ruling
afirmed that the 2011 law
— which Texas enforced in
three elections — abridged
the right to vote based on
race or color.
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