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Donald Trump’s campaign is advising Texas senator Ted Cruz on the content of his speech he’ll deliver at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night.
“We’ve been talking back and forth about what the senator wants to say,” Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort told reporters Wednesday. “I think he’ll say something that will [give a side] of where he is on Donald Trump that will be pleasing to the Trump campaign and to Republicans.”
Manafort said he would be receiving a copy of Cruz’s speech later today and told reporters he expected the speech to highlight themes from Cruz’s presidential campaign as well as the danger of a Democratic presidency.
“I’m comfortable that Senator Cruz is going to talk about his vision for America,” Manafort said. “I think that he’ll talk about Hillary Clinton and … how America cannot afford to have Hillary Clinton president.”
Cruz has yet to endorse Trump after months of brawling with the businessman during the presidential primaries. He and his camp had indicated he would use his remarks Wednesday to articulate a conservative vision for the country, made all the more intriguing because he had not publicly rebuked an anti-Trump delegate movement to upend the nominee.
