"Click here to make an instant, emergency contribution and help me fight back. "This is an emergency - all hands on deck," his fundraising letter added. I knew I'd be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this."Ĭruz accused the "liberal media" of attempting to "attack and destroy me (and my family) by any means necessary." "My daughters are not FAIR GAME," he wrote in a fundraising email sent late Tuesday. The Texas senator made the most of the advantage conferred on the first. On Tuesday, Cruz launched an "emergency" appeal seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours in response to the cartoon. Senator Ted Cruz with his wife, Heidi, and daughters following his announcement that he. WEB EXTRA: Ted Cruz Responds To Cartoon Involving His Daughters. That has no place in politics."Ĭruz also said that he "appreciates" the support of his fellow Republicans and that he's glad that the Washington Post removed the image. But don't be attacking five year-old girls. Ted Cruz obtained new ammunition Tuesday to shoot at his favorite bogeyman, the mainstream media, after The Washington Post depicted his two young daughters as monkey-like characters doing the. The cartoon which portrayed Cruz in a Santa outfit with an organ-grinder and daughters Catherine, 4, and Caroline, 7, as monkeys was replaced by a note from editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. Leave kids alone And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that's what they're gonna do. "It used to be for a long time the rules across the board that kids are off limits," he added. The Washington Post published a cartoon Tuesday depicting Ted Cruz’s two young daughters, Catherine and Caroline, as performing monkeys.After some good old fashioned public shaming for the classy mockery of his daughters, the Post pulled it with a half-hearted apology.Now Cruz has offered up his own cartoon. Yesterday, the Washington Post published a cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as trained circus monkeys, a reference to a recent political ad released by his campaign that uses Cruz’s.
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"Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that'll do it," Cruz said in response to the cartoon, which has since been taken down. The cartoon by Ann Telnaes, which originally ran under the headline Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props, came after the Texas senator featured his two young daughters in a campaign. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, telling a crowd in Tulsa that the attack "has no place in politics."