Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gave a rare rebuke on Sunday of President Donald Trump over his call for China to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden.
“Is it appropriate for President Trump to be saying China should look into the Biden family? Is that appropriate?” CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Cruz during an interview on “Face the Nation.”
“I–look, of course not,” the Texas Republican said. “Elections in the U.S. should be decided by Americans and it’s not the business of foreign countries, any foreign countries, to be interfering in our elections.”
Cruz asserted that foreign countries “should stay out of American elections.”
“That’s true for Russia. That’s true for Ukraine. That’s true for China,” he said.
Hardly any Republicans have criticized Trump for pushing Ukraine and China to investigate his top political rival, or acknowledged such a request is wrong. Only four Republicans have done so, besides Cruz.
Watch Cruz below:
Cruz: "Of course" it's not appropriate for Trump to ask China to investigate Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/4m0F0an3F0
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 13, 2019
Cruz -a man who let Trump criticize his wife and father without saying a word -has never been a profile in courage or above corrupt electoral maneuvers. For him to say this, when Ernst, Collins, and Gardner wouldn’t, is significant. I believe Trump has lost control over Congressional Republicans.
I think the Syria situation was Putin leveraging Trump for one last favor, knowing the ask was going to destroy Trump domestically. It’s finally a bridge too far for Republicans, and especially the Intelligence and Military communities.
The longer Speaker Pelosi takes to approve Mr. Schiff dropping the hammer on Orange Julius Caesar the longer she’s making every repugnican dangle on dilemma of ‘crime/punishment’ and their own credibility.
(not that the vast majority of them have any remaining of the latter.)
Things are getting really bad for Trump. He seems to be watching his support diminish hourly.
Oh Lord!
That’s not all he said. He first reinforced Trump’s Biden lies before Margaret Brennan wrung this admission from him.