Ingraham was riding high until the gesture was pointed out. Conservatives used her speech as the prime example of what a 2016 RNC speaker should do, endorse Donald Trump with sweeping praise — which was the exact opposite route Ted Cruz took later in the evening.
The Huffington Post found parallels between Trump's speech and a 2011 POLITICO column written by Richard Grenell, who was a former spokesperson for Mitt Romney in 2012.
