Donald Trump just explained how Mike Pence's endorsement of Ted Cruz 'was more of an endorsement for me'

Donald Trump and Mike Pence
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Donald Trump held a press conference Saturday to formally introduce Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as his 2016 running mate. In the process, he took the time to explain his long-held belief that Pence's previous endorsement of his rival, Ted Cruz, "was more of an endorsement for me."

Trump described the endorsement as something Pence was forced to do "under tremendous pressure from establishment people." "If you remember," he argued, "[Pence] talked about Trump, then he talked about Ted — who's a good guy, by the way, who's going to be speaking at the convention, Ted Cruz, good guy. But he talked about Trump, Ted, then he went back to Trump. I said, 'Who did he endorse?'"

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.