--- title: Republican Convention: Watch Delegates Boo Ted Cruz description: Republican delegates were unhappy when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz failed to endorse Donald Trump during his speech to the Republican convention. canonical: https://time.com/4416507/republican-convention-ted-cruz-delegates-boo/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-21T05:14:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:53.941Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Republican Delegates Boo Ted Cruz og:description: Here's what it looked like up close. og:url: https://time.com/4416507/republican-convention-ted-cruz-delegates-boo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfb971707e2162ac/69889cfbe20a877ee9a91b01/ben-lowey-rnc-republican-national-convention-10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL RNC og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Republican Delegates Boo Ted Cruz twitter:description: Here's what it looked like up close. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfb971707e2162ac/69889cfbe20a877ee9a91b01/ben-lowey-rnc-republican-national-convention-10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Republican Delegates Boo Ted Cruz by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 21, 2016 5:14 AM UTC  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, on July 20, 2016. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, on July 20, 2016.Benjamin Lowy for TIME by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 21, 2016 5:14 AM UTC Delegates [were unhappy when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz failed to endorse](http://time.com/4416260/republican-convention-ted-cruz-speech) Donald Trump during his speech to the Republican national convention. Here’s a close-up video of how some of those delegates booed while Cruz was speaking. Republican Convention: Watch Delegates Boo Ted Cruz ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4416507/republican-convention-ted-cruz-delegates-boo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4416507/republican-convention-ted-cruz-delegates-boo/"},"headline":"Watch Republican Delegates Boo Ted Cruz","datePublished":"2016-07-21T05:14:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:53.941Z","description":"Republican delegates were unhappy when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz failed to endorse Donald Trump during his speech to the Republican convention.","url":"https://time.com/4416507/republican-convention-ted-cruz-delegates-boo/","keywords":["Republican National Convention","2016 Election","ted cruz","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfb971707e2162ac/69889cfbe20a877ee9a91b01/ben-lowey-rnc-republican-national-convention-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfb971707e2162ac/69889cfbe20a877ee9a91b01/ben-lowey-rnc-republican-national-convention-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIMEPOL RNC","caption":"TIMEPOL RNC","creditText":"Benjamin Lowy for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republican-national-convention/","name":"Republican National Convention"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4416507/republican-convention-ted-cruz-delegates-boo/","name":"Watch Republican Delegates Boo Ted Cruz"}}]}] ```