"This is an emergency - all hands on deck," his fundraising letter added. I knew I'd be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this."Ĭruz accused the "liberal media" of attempting to "attack and destroy me (and my family) by any means necessary." My editorial cartoon criticizing then-presidential candidate Ted Cruz for his decision to have his 7-year-old daughter read from the script of a political attack ad had just been published online by the Washington Post, and four days of continuous emails, tweets, and comments had begun. "My daughters are not FAIR GAME," he wrote in a fundraising email sent late Tuesday. Its generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. On Tuesday, Cruz launched an "emergency" appeal seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours in response to the cartoon. In December 2015, Texas Senator Ted Cruz shared a campaign video. That has no place in politics."Ĭruz also said that he "appreciates" the support of his fellow Republicans and that he's glad that the Washington Post removed the image. But don't be attacking five year-old girls. Leave kids alone And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that's what they're gonna do. Ted Cruz Fights Political Cartoon Featuring His Daughters 23,895 views 63 Dislike Share Save ABC News 13M subscribers The GOP presidential candidate is angry after The Washington Post. "It used to be for a long time the rules across the board that kids are off limits," he added. Ted Cruz Fights Political Cartoon Featuring His Daughters The GOP presidential candidate is angry after The Washington Post published a cartoon featuring his young daughters.
"Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that'll do it," Cruz said in response to the cartoon, which has since been taken down. Its generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt said in a statement. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, telling a crowd in Tulsa that the attack "has no place in politics." The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon depicting GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruzs school-age daughters as monkeys and him as an organ grinder. Let’s hope one of the most shocking mass shootings that killed nineteen children will lead to a public revolt that will-just maybe-cause recalcitrant Republican lawmakers to grudgingly join with Democrats to actually do something this time around.Sen. The problem isn’t the guns, they’ll say, the school should have built a moat to slow down any attackers. They’ll suggest just about everything except for laws that prevent civilians in the United States from having easy access to weapons of war. They’ll call for arming teachers and building.
The Republicans will blame the shooter’s mental health. I’m sure their speeches will be filled with venom directed at those evil Democrats who they’ll accuse of politicizing a tragic shooting. On May 27, several complicit politicians with blood on their hands are scheduled to speak at the annual National Rifle Association convention in Houston. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other top state politicos like Senator Ted Cruz are putting on their frowny empathetic faces. With the awful school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Republican lawmakers are of course quick to offer prayers and vacuous condolences to the fourth-grade victims and their families.
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