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WATCH What Ted Cruz Did During The Debate That Sent The Dials Off The Charts
Sen. Ted Cruz managed to once again score one of the stand out moments in the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, and he did it by looping in a dig on the press with a strong defense of those who support legal immigration.
Cruz’s comments came following former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush arguing that it would be un-American and impractical to force millions of law-abiding illegal immigrants to leave the country. “They are doing high fives in the Clinton campaign, when they hear [Republicans talking about] this,” he said.
“The Democrats are laughing, because if Republicans join Democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose,” Cruz retorted. “I would say the politics of it would be very different is a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande.”
The senator then had a little fun at the media’s expense, saying, “Or If a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press, then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation,” drawing cheers and applause from the audience and a 93 on a Frank Luntz focus group scoring.
As reported by Western Journalism, Cruz earned the highest score a Luntz focus group ever recorded when he took on the CNBC moderators at last month’s debate. Both conservatives and moderates gave him a 98.
At Tuesday night’s debate, Cruz scored high again when he became righteously indignant about those who accuse him and others who share his views of being anti-immigrant. “I will say for those of us who believe people ought to come to this country legally and we should enforce the law, we’re tired of being told it is anti-immigrant, it’s offensive!” the candidate exclaimed, which caused the Luntz dials to go back up to 98 with conservatives, and 82 with moderates.
.@TedCruz scores big (hits 98) with “I’m tired of being told I’m anti-immigrant. It’s offensive.” Actually outscores trump on immigration.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 11, 2015
“I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba to seek the American dream and we can embrace legal immigration, while believing in the rule of law,” Cruz said. “And I would note, try going illegally to another country. Try going to China or Japan. Try going to Mexico. See what they do. Every sovereign nation secure its borders and it is not compassionate to say we are not going to enforce the law and we are going to drive down wages for millions of hardworking Americans.”
Donald Trump, who has made illegal immigration a central issue of his campaign, reiterated the importance of securing the border. “We are a country of laws. We need borders,” he stated. “We will have a wall…The wall will be successful….We either have a country, or we don’t have a country.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-what-ted-cruz-did-during-the-debate-that-sent-the-dials-off-the-charts/
