This convention is such a train wreck. It went off the rails on day 1, and hasn't recovered.
Tomorrow we get Trump-maybe he can pull a rabbit out of a hat, but so far his campaign looks utterly incompetent.
The Cruz snub is really interesting, and it had to be 100% deliberate, right down to the pregnant pauses where he could have endorsed him, and then didn't. A lot of people are speculating about Cruz' long term plans, and he may well be eyeing 2020 right now. However, I also wonder if this is on some level personal: Trump insulted his wife, repeatedly called him a liar, implied that Cruz was less American and might not be eligible for the presidency due to his place of birth and insinuated that Cruz' father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
All of which is to say, maybe the Cruz snub was about his long term political ambitions--but maybe, just maybe, some part of Cruz was also thinking "payback is a bitch."
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