President Donald Trump should be praised for having a backbone and a willingness to fight, even if his tweets have “coarsened discussion,” Sen. Ted Cruz told The Hugh Hewitt Show.
“So many of us are so sick and tired of Republicans that roll over and whimper when encountering the slightest resistance," the Texas Republican told the conservative radio host in describing how Trump has changed the GOP. “And I think probably the best characteristic about the president is he’s got a backbone. And he will fight.”
Cruz added, however, that “I wish his tone and some of the things he said were different. Many of the tweets I’m not a fan of, and I do think it has coarsened discussion. So that is a less-than-positive development.”
But the senator also said that Trump has “driven the Democratic Party insane [and] also driven the media insane” and has pushed Republicans "to actually defending the fundamental ideals upon which our nation was founded.”
Cruz warned that if Democrats win the upcoming elections in November and capture both the White House and Senate, they will not only enact radical socialist and job-killing policies but would in all probability grant statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico within the first six months of 2021.
He stressed that this would lead to, “in all likelihood, four new Democratic senators” and a different political map skewed to their favor for many years in the future.
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