The last time that Republicans had a contested presidential primary was the year 2016.

And though it seems sort of impossible to imagine now, the party was kind of divided about Trump's victory all the way to the

convention floor and you saw that no more clearly than when Senator Ted

Cruz went to the podium in a prim time speaking slot I might add and refuse to mention

Trump's name during his convention speech and boy oh boy did people notice.

If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do,

stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom.

God bless each and every one of you and God bless the United States of America.

Prior to that moment, before all those just deafening booze, Ted Cruz and

Donald Trump had been going at each other for months. Relations between these two men were not good.

Trump regularly went after Ted Cruz's family during the primary. He weirdly and

baselessly accused Cruz's father of playing a role in the Kennedy assassination.

He insulted Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz for her appearance.

And Senator Ted Cruz was quite obviously furious over it.

Donald doesn't like strong women. Strong women scared of.

I don't get angry off them.

But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids,

that'll do it every time.

Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone. But Ted Cruz was not an outlier that year.

Other candidates running against Trump were also able to muster some amount of

courage to speak out about him to maybe even stand up to him or at least his candidacy.

Senator Marco Rubio was running against Trump in 2016 and this is what Marco Rubio had to say.

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