Cruz said he had planned to stay through the weekend, but had second thoughts 'almost the moment I sat down on the plane. The senator visited Uvalde yesterday and stressed the need for “one door that goes in and out of the school.” He pushed it again soon after on Fox News. Senator Ted Cruz flew into a storm of criticism on Thursday after leaving his home state of Texas in the grip of a deadly deep freeze, for a family holiday jaunt to the Mexican resort of Cancun he said he took to please his young daughters. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks to members of the press after a Senate Republican luncheon at the Russell Senate Office Building on March 24. I initially thought the Texas Republican might’ve just blurted this out as a rhetorical tactic to get out of a difficult line of questioning, but it quickly became apparent that Cruz expects this to be taken seriously. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (who’s speaking at the NRA’s convention this Friday) argued yesterday that the problem isn’t that there are too many guns out there, it’s that schools have too many doors - more specifically, more than one door. Talking Points Memo noted this morning:Īfter an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas left 19 kids and two adults dead, Sen. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted last night, “Oh my god they’re gonna go with the one door thing, aren’t they?” Unfortunately, yes. Evangelical Christian voters, a key component of the Republican Party base, are wild about Israel.
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In fairness, however, I should note that there is one new GOP talking point that hasn’t traditionally been a major part of the conversation.