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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/donald-trump-meets-with-ted-cruz-reince-priebus/index.html
(CNN)Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump's former chief rival for the GOP nomination, will speak at the Republican National Convention later this month, the Texas senator told reporters after the two met Thursday in Washington.
Cruz told reporters Thursday that the real estate mogul offered his former primary rival a speaking slot during the meeting and he accepted. He added that he and Trump did not discuss an endorsement.
"We had a positive and productive meeting this morning with Donald Trump. Donald asked me to speak at the Republican convention and I told him I'd be happy to do so," Cruz told reporters.
The two men met Thursday with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters where Trump also met with several dozen other Republican senators on Thursday. The meeting marked the first time Cruz and Trump met in person since the Texas senator dropped out of the presidential race more than two months ago.
Priebus told Fox News Thursday that Trump and Cruz had "a good conversation," but said that because the meeting was private, he wouldn't go into specifics.
"I'll just say they had a good conversation and it was very polite and cordial and normal," Priebus said. "I know they're working on details."
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A senior Trump campaign official said Trump and Cruz agreed to no longer work against each other and would work together on policy issues where they share common ground. Trump also asked Cruz to help recommend potential judicial nominees, the official said.
Trump and Cruz were joined by Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, as well as Cruz's former campaign chairman Jeff Roe.
The Texas senator has so far refused to endorse Trump, but has not ruled it out.
While Cruz resisted criticizing Trump in the initial months of the GOP primary campaign, Cruz would eventually become one of Trump's fiercest rivals -- and the last remaining legitimate challenge to Trump's campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination.
And the final weeks of Cruz's campaign were dominated by Trump's personal attacks against the Texas senator and his family as the fight between the two men grew increasingly bitter and personal.
In late March, Trump threatened to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife after an anti-Trump super PAC unaffiliated with Cruz's campaign pushed out a series of digital ads aimed at portraying Trump's wife in a negative light.
And Trump would later also retweet an unflattering picture of the Texans' wife alongside a glamorous shot of his own wife with the caption "the images are worth a thousand words."
Trump clashes with congressional critic behind closed doors
And as Indiana's Republican voters headed to the polls, Trump again turned to the personal, accusing Cruz's father of being involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Cruz also turned to mudslinging in his campaign against Trump, criticizing the New York billionaire in the final days of the Indiana campaign of being as a "serial philanderer," "pathological liar" and "narcissist."
And he opened one of the first fronts in his battle with Trump by hitting Trump as an out-of-touch candidate with "New York values."
Returning to the Senate in May after dropping out of the presidential race, Cruz would not express his support for Trump as the GOP nominee -- but did not rule it out.
"There are two and a half months until the Republican convention, six months until the general election," Cruz told reporters in May after returning to Washington. "There will be plenty of time for voters to make the determination who they're going to support."
CNN's Betsy Klein and Rachel Chason contributed to this report.
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interesting
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Does this make you happy or sad, cjd?
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Does this make you happy or sad, cjd?
It's a positive development... Why would it be a bad thing?
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It's a positive development... Why would it be a bad thing?
What does it signify to you in regards to the republican party?
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What does it signify to you in regards to the republican party?
I am the wrong person to as about party politics because for about the past 6 or 7 years I have considered the vast amount of the Republican party to be useless... I use to be a card carrying member as far back as the early 80's... For about the past 6 or 7 years when the fund raisers call they only get a long lecture on all the recent and past transgressions and inaction's so needless to say they don't seem to call much anymore... In theory Cruz is said to be a party outsider so I am not expecting to see much in the way of party politics if he follows through and speaks... I say in theory because I have come to the conclusion that Cruz is a practitioner of the art of hidden hand politics as we saw with his second vote delegate shenanigans... How he was going to repay the delegates and than again how he was going to get people to vote in the general election is another story again... If I were Cruz I would go to the convention and make a positive speech and let the party worry about itself.
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I think it is the right thing for Ted Cruz to do. Not for the party. But to carry his ideals forward for the people who voted for him. I don't think the party wants Trump or him there. Really. What about you Kahane-Was-Right BT? What do you think?
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I've red something about Cruz being floated as a possible VP candidate. But then again, who knows?
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Not that I could imagine it, but if Cruz supports the charlatan, he's dead to me.
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I think it is the right thing for Ted Cruz to do. Not for the party. But to carry his ideals forward for the people who voted for him. I don't think the party wants Trump or him there. Really. What about you Kahane-Was-Right BT? What do you think?
To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm kind of wondering what he was planning to do. Also wondering if that plan changed now with the court ruling in Virginia.
My guess is that Cruz planned to go in there and plead with republicans that we need to stop hillary, but I really don't know.
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I hope Cruz lays out the direction we are headed if people don't wise up and quit voting for hostile leaders that hate America.
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I thought that Ted Cruz wasn't going to be at the RNC because of Trump's attacks on Cruz during the primires.