Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz emphasized this week, following Donald Trump’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, that the former president must remain laser-focused on highlighting Harris’ past statements, policy positions, and rhetoric, reminding voters of their radical nature. Cruz shared these remarks during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, where they discussed the Tuesday 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 was 600 riots in the summer of 2020,” Hannity said to begin the segment. “She tweets out the Minnesota, 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 noted further.
“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 began. “So, 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 said — says that if in the course of an abortion, a baby is alive, is breathing, is outside the womb, you can’t just kill the baby. She voted no,” said Cruz. “And so, her actual record needs to be systematically laid out when it comes to crime. This is someone who has supported defund the police. This is someone who has supported defund ICE. This is someone, Kamala Harris, who compared ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, to the KKK,” the Texas Republican continued.
“But we need to make sure those facts get before the American people because ABC is not going to do it. The corporate media is not going to do it. And, listen, her radical record is radical the same way my opponent, Colin Allred, who’s running against me,” he went on. “Both of them vote repeatedly in favor of open borders. Both of them vote for trillions of dollars of spending we don’t have. Both of them vote for the war against oil and gas and American energy. Both of them vote in favor of defunding the police. That’s their record. But I got to tell you, the left right now, they are flooding money to Kamala Harris. They’re flooding money to my opponent because they want to deceive the American people.”
He concluded: “Both Kamala Harris and my opponent are running ads with Donald Trump’s border wall in it, even though both of them have opposed it their entire careers. The hypocrisy is enormous. Which is why we need to bring the facts back up and prosecute this case on the merits.