Ted Cruz quickly becomes news at GOP confab
A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens:
Television viewers got the moments of excitement they craved from the convention. They had everything to do with antagonism — not excitement — for presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement speech for Trump, and the spreading realization through the Cleveland arena at what he was not doing, instantly overshadowed everything else that took place Wednesday. It may, as MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace suggested, stand as the takeaway memory of the Republicans’ entire week.
“Ted Cruz walked in here and body-slammed Donald Trump,” said ABC News’ Tom Llamas.