"When Ted Cruz takes the stage here on Wednesday evening, what he doesn’t say will be as important as what he does: Though he accepted a primetime speaking spot at the convention that officially nominated Donald Trump on Tuesday, Cruz will not endorse the Republican nominee, according to two sources familiar with his plans."
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438086/ted-cruz-republican-convention-speech-high-stakes-2020
Personally, I'd love it if he could use the five seconds he'd need before they cut off his mic to announce a new party and invite delegates to walk out, resulting in hundreds of delegates leaving.
We have to come to the reality that the party is NOT unified - it is completely and irrevocably fractured. The primary voters who insisted on choosing Trump drove a stake into the heart of a unified party. The funny thing is, many of them said things ahead of time like, "I'm voting for Trump, but I'd be OK with [X]."
Think about that. They would have been OK with [one of the other candidates]. #NeverTrump said, "I'm voting for [X], but I will never, ever support Trump."
And yet, here we are. The Trump crowd blindly led us down this path. We have no unified party anymore. Even while we swallowed hard and pulled the lever for Romney, we were unified.
Now what? Where do true conservatives go? What happens to the GOP in the aftermath? My guess is that team Trump's spite will be so strong (as witnessed on the other thread) that they will never come to the light. My guess is that the fractured party ensures liberal rule for decades to come.