Ted Cruz on Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting
Ted Cruz on Paris: We can't defeat the enemy if we don't name it.
Ted Cruz on Planned Parenthood shooting: Um how about transgender people?
- LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 30, 2015
(CNN)Ted Cruz is condemning the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, but is refusing to blame the attack on the anti-abortion rhetoric that has consumed stretches of the Republican primary campaign.
Speaking about the alleged gunman, Robert Lewis Dear, at a campaign event in Iowa on Sunday, Cruz accused the media of wanting "to blame him on the pro-life movement when at this point there's very little evidence to indicate that." Audio of the comments was posted online by The Texas Tribune.
When a reporter told Cruz that the suspect in the Colorado Springs killings is alleged to have mentioned "baby parts" after his arrest, the Texas senator responded, "Well, it's also been reported that he was registered as an independent and a woman and transgendered leftist activist...
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