Sen. Ted Cruz laid into the campaign manager of front-running GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, saying the
staffer's alleged forcible grab of a news reporter is a "fireable offense."
Speaking to reporters in Illinois late Monday, Cruz described the Trump campaign as reaching a new "height of disdain from a candidate for reporters and voters,"
Politico reports.
The Texas lawmaker contrasted the "allegations of significant assault" last week on Michelle Fields, who was then working for Breitbart News, by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to a controversy over Hillary Clinton's campaign
roping off reporters at parade in New Hampshire last July 4.
"We were all amazed and joking about the fact that the Clinton campaign used ropes to hold back reporters, to keep them away from Hillary Clinton, and that seemed like the height of disdain from a candidate for reporters and the media," Cruz said, Politico reports.
"We never envisioned that it would now reach the levels of allegations of significant physical assault. Physically assaulting a reporter is a fireable offense, and at the end of the day, responsibility for any campaign rests with the candidate."
Fields has since resigned Breitbart over the incident.
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