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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has seemingly put aside his objections to his former rival, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, and has agreed to speak at the GOP's national convention in Cleveland later this month.
Cruz and Trump met at National Republican Senatorial Committee offices in Capitol Hill Thursday, after Trump had separate meetings with members of the House and Senate Republican conferences.
"Sen. Cruz and Donald Trump had a good meeting this morning," a statement from Cruz's office said. "There was no discussion of any endorsement. Mr. Trump asked Sen. Cruz to speak at the Republican convention, and Sen. Cruz said he would be happy to do so."
Trump also promised to seek Cruz's "counsel on future judicial nominations, and Cruz responded he would continue to do everything he can to help ensure principled constitutionalists on the courts," the statement said.
Trump's offer to speak at the convention marked a shift from a stance he took last month, demanding that anyone who hoped to take the podium must endorse him first.
"If there's no endorsement, then I would not invite them to speak," Trump said in an interview with The New York Times on June 26.
Cruz had resisted GOP pressure to get behind Trump after their primary fight turned bitterly personal. Trump went after Cruz's wife and accused Cruz's father of being in cahoots with President John F. Kennedy's assassin.
But a campaign aide said the two men had decided it was time to put the rancor of their primary fight behind them, telling CNN they had agreed to work together on policy issues where they share common ground.
Bringing Cruz on board, even without a formal endorsement, would seem to inoculate Trump from attempts by some delegates – many of whom are aligned with Cruz – to block his nomination.
According to a whip count of delegates by RNC member Randy Evans, 20 members of the convention's 112-member rules committee are interested in allowing delegates to be unbound from the candidate they are required to vote for by the results of state primaries and caucuses. If 28 members – a quarter – support such a resolution, it would be put before the full convention.
There, just 890 of the 1,237 delegates needed to formally win the nomination are solidly in Trump's camp; Evans estimates 680 oppose him. Another 900 are "in play," meaning two-thirds of that group would need to vote against Trump to deny him the nomination – a steep, but not impossible – challenge.
But other efforts are underway to prevent anti-Trump delegates from moving forward with such a resolution – and, even if they succeed, it is not clear they have an alternative candidate to coalesce behind.
VIDEO: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/ted-cruz-buries-the-hatchet-with-donald-trump-will-speak-at-rnc-convention
VIDEO: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/ted-cruz-buries-the-hatchet-with-donald-trump-will-speak-at-rnc-convention
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