Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused supporters of his Republican presidential rival Donald Trump of acting like “union boss thugs” in their effort to secure Trump’s nomination during a Wednesday CNN town hall.
The Texas senator was asked by host Anderson Cooper to respond to the comments of Trump’s newly crowned delegate-wrangler Paul Manafort, who accused the Cruz campaign of resorting to “Gestapo tactics” to win delegates ahead of the July convention.
“It is bizarre,” Cruz said. “Donald and his team, it’s almost like they are subjects in a clinical course in psychology. There are all sorts of different behaviors they display but one of them is projection. That the conduct they do, regularly, they accuse others of doing.”
As TPM previously reported, anonymous Trump backers have leaked the personal information of and sent death threats to the low-level Republican officials who serve as delegates to the Republican convention. The head of the Colorado Republican Party said he plans to bring a sheriff with him to the convention due to the volume of threats he has received.
“Violence doesn’t belong in democracy, and the Trump campaign encourages it over and over again,” Cruz told Cooper during the town hall.
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