Ted Cruz Says Trump Should Spend Remainder of Campaign Exposing Harris
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz stated this week, following Donald Trump's debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, that Trump must focus on Harris' past statements, policy positions, and rhetoric because voters need to understand how extreme these positions are.
Cruz made the comments during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, where they discussed the debate.
“I mean, and there’s so much that we don’t understand. Defund, dismantle, reimagine ICE, the police, the Minneapolis, they wanted to talk about January 6th. There were 600 riots in the summer of 2020,” Hannity began. “She tweets out the Minnesota Bail Fund four days after the police precinct is burned.
“And, you know, ‘they won’t stop. They shouldn’t stop. We’re not going to stop,’ — all things that she said. Eighteen to 24-year-olds are stupid. Abolish the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal. Inflation is transitory. The border is secure. We’re proud of ‘Bidenomics’. The country needs to be woke. We’ll never deport illegals. And now we’re going to give free sex change operations to convicted felons and illegal immigrants. How’s that going to go over in your state of Texas? I would imagine not so well,” Hannity continued.
“Look, it goes over terribly. But what you just did, what I just did, is what the Trump campaign needs to do between now and Election Day, which is lay out the actual facts of her record because she won’t confront them,” Cruz responded. “For example, on abortion, she said, ‘no, no, no, I’m not for late-term abortions, eight and nine-month abortions.’ Well, she has voted for legislation that would legalize abortion up until the moment of birth.
“When she says, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, abortion after birth,’ well, Kamala Harris voted against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which states that if, during an abortion, a baby is born alive, is breathing, and is outside the womb, you can't just end the baby's life. She voted no.
“So, her actual record needs to be systematically laid out. When it comes to crime, this is someone who has supported defunding the police. This is someone who supported defunding ICE. Kamala Harris even compared ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, to the KKK,” Cruz continued.
“We need to make sure those facts reach the American people because ABC is not going to do it. The corporate media is not going to do it. Her radical record is as extreme as my opponent, Colin Allred, who is running against me,” he added. “Both of them vote repeatedly for open borders. Both vote for trillions of dollars of spending that we don’t have. Both support the war on oil, gas, and American energy. And both favor defunding the police. That’s their record. But right now, the left is flooding money into Kamala Harris’s campaign and my opponent’s because they want to mislead the American people.
“Both Kamala Harris and my opponent are running ads with Donald Trump’s border wall in them, even though they’ve opposed it throughout their careers. The hypocrisy is enormous. That’s why we need to keep bringing the facts to light and argue this case on the merits,” Cruz concluded.
Former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also criticized Harris and the ABC debate moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, after her debate with Trump. Appearing on Newsmax TV, RFK Jr. emphasized that a key electoral issue this cycle is inflation and the economy, topics Harris avoided.
“We have a first generation of American kids who can't afford to buy homes. There is unaffordability at the gas pump and at grocery stores. People are downgrading ingredients just to make it through checkout, and elderly people are cutting up their prescriptions to afford food or fuel,” RFK Jr. said.