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
The easiest job in the world: sounding more reasonable than Donald Trump.
The Michelle Fields incident is just a distraction. In the scheme of things it is not that important. I watched the video. Michelle was pushing and shoving and appeared to be badgering Donald Trump. Both Corey Lewandowski and the Secret Service felt the situation was threatening enough to intervene.
If you were a private employer… something of this nature would result in a termination. You don’t have to have someone ‘scream’… you can diffuse the situation appropriately. Also, a law enforcement officer didn’t intervene… corey did like a thug.
Sorry, the victim shaming is strong here. I would have been inclined to elbow the perp in the giblets, but that’s just me.
Well for Ted Cruz who has no loyalty to anyone other than himself is a pretty easy decisions. He will throw his daughters to the piranhas to swim across the river of his ambitions.
The Secret Service were not involved, and do not concur with Drumpf’s story. Neither to the police. Neither does the video. So, there is that.