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# Watch Newt Gingrich Respond to Ted Cruz at the Republican Convention

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## Video: Newt Gingrich Speaks At The Republican National Convention

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[Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/)


## Ryan Teague Beckwith


Jul 21, 2016 3:36 AM UTC

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[Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/)


## Ryan Teague Beckwith


Jul 21, 2016 3:36 AM UTC

Newt Gingrich spoke at the Republican national convention Wednesday night, responding to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s failure to endorse Donald Trump.

The former House Speaker began by noting that Trump had asked several of his former rivals, including Cruz, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to speak without endorsing him.

“Now I think you misunderstood one paragraph that Ted Cruz, who is a superb orator, said, and I just want to point it out to you, Ted Cruz said you can vote your conscience for anyone who will uphold the Constitution. In this election, there is only one candidate who will uphold the Constitution,” he said.

“So to paraphrase Ted Cruz, if you want to protect the Constitution of United States, the only possible candidate this fall is the Trump-Pence Republican ticket,” he added.

Read the full transcript of Gingrich’s remarks, including his wife Callista’s introduction, as delivered:

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## Transcript

There have been many fascinating things to watch about the extraordinary historic rise of Donald Trump. But the most significant has been Donald Trump's courage to tell some important truths about our national security. For example, we are at war. We are at with with radical Islamists They are determined to kill us, they are stronger than we admit and there is no substitute for victory. If our enemies had their way, not a single woman in this room could define her future. If our enemies had their way, gays, lesbians and transgender citizens would be put to death As they are today in the Islamic State in Iran.

The worst case scenario is losing an American city to terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction. Instead of losing 3, 000 people in one morning, we could lose more than 300, 000. Instead of losing two great buildings We could loose block after block after block to a nuclear event.

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