Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) opened up his remarks astatine a property league by offering generic token words aft a schoolhouse shooting successful his authorities and past talking astir Biden’s “border crisis.”
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Sen. Cruz said, “The students, the teachers, the archetypal responders, and the parents. And determination person been acold excessively many of these, acold excessively galore schools. And truthful we are grateful for the courage and the heroism of the first responders, and we’re hopeful that each of the students or individuals that whitethorn have been injured volition travel done and survive. We are present contiguous due to the fact that of the Biden borderline crisis. That continues to rage connected the southern border. –“
Cruz Had Nothing To Say About The Fact That Kids Shouldn’t Get Shot In School.
Children should beryllium capable to be schoolhouse without being shot. Parents shouldn’t person to interest astir the information of their kids successful school.
Cruz’s comments are emblematic of the Republican presumption that kids getting changeable successful schoolhouse is conscionable thing that we person to unrecorded with. It is an inconvenience that should beryllium glossed implicit and moved connected from arsenic soon arsenic possible.
Sen. Cruz didn’t inquire wherefore kids are carrying guns successful Texas schools and if possibly that is simply a problem?
Cruz said the accustomed bare Republican connection crockery and past moved connected to fearmongering astir immigrants and the confederate border.
If Ted Cruz cared, helium would person abandoned his talking points, spoke astir the schoolhouse shooting, and left.
Cruz definite seemed similar helium didn’t attraction that kids and an big got changeable successful school.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.
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