Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Tuesday night he would ask his campaign manager to resign if he assaulted a member of the press, saying “it shouldn’t be a complicated decision.”
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper asked Cruz if his campaign staffer was accused of the same charges rival Donald Trump’s campaign manager was, would Cruz call for the aide’s resignation?
“Of course,” Cruz said at CNN’s town hall interview. “It shouldn’t be complicated that members of the campaign staff should not be physically assaulting the press. That shouldn’t be a complicated decision.”
Trump’s top aide Corey Lewandowski was charged with a misdemeanor battery charge Tuesday after a former Breitbart News reporter accused Lewandowski of manhandling her after a presser in Florida on March 8.
Cruz said the alleged assault fit into a “consistent” pattern of the campaign.
“The culture of the campaign has been a campaign built on attacks, on insults, and I think there is no place in politics for insults, for personal attacks, for going to the gutter and there should be no place for physical violence,” Cruz said.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) also said he would fire Lewandowski if a similar situation occurred in his campaign.
“Of course I would,” Kasich said, according to CNN.
Watch the clip, from the CNN town hall, below:
Ted Cruz blasts the “culture” of Donald Trump’s campaign https://t.co/LlEKp2pI3n via @StCollinson https://t.co/ec8s6xCuim
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 30, 2016
