Cruz says California shooting may be act of Islamic terror

The mudslinging continued as Cruz said reporters “desperately” hope murderers are Republicans and “you can nearly see the media salivating…so they can use it to try to paint their political enemies”.

We received dozens of emails from readers asking us to check the claim, so we took a closer look.

But in a clear break from Rubio and other Republican national security hawks, Cruz suggested the United States would be safer with Assad continuing in his role as Syrian president, just as the world would have been safer had Middle East dictators not been toppled in Libya, Egypt and Iraq. “You’re trying to think, ‘How do I run?’…”

In August, Cruz pledged his support to Georgia Right to Life’s call for “personhood” legislation, which would recognize “a continuum of human life and personhood begins at the moment of fertilization”.

“The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats”, he said. He stated strategies in that conservatives want to cut off access to contraception is a component of a fabricated effort by Democrats to influence voters in that Republicans are partaking in a “war on women”. It seems, based on the evidence at hand, that it’s possible that the plurality of felons (overall) are Democrats.

Or this: rich people tend to vote for Republicans, and income-tax cheats tend to be rich. So most income-tax cheats are Republicans.

“When elected Democrats push to give felons the right to vote, it is a perfectly rational and reasonable inference to say those Democrats understand that the overwhelming majority of violent criminals vote Democratic”, he said.

Also, quite frankly, unless the crime they’ve committed is politically motivated, it doesn’t matter what their political leanings are.

A release announcing the DNC call noted a 2014 Pew Research Center survey that found Democrats with a 30 percentage point lead with Jews over the GOP.

They also said party registration statistics might have at least as much to do with ex-felons’ backgrounds as their criminal record. Cruz: “Cruz is correct that people convicted of a violent crime are more likely to identify as Democrats than as Republicans'”.

“[Cruz] implied that being a felon makes someone more Democratic”. “When the [Iranian dictator] Ayatollah Khamenei burns American and Israeli flags, I trust him that he means it”, he said. That’s true in some states studied, but not others, and no national data is available.

Newman also hired Cheryl Sullenger, who had previously served time for an attempted bombing of an abortion clinic, as the senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue. Finally, it’s hard to draw a line between cause and effect, particularly given the disproportionately high population of African-Americans – a traditionally Democratic group – in the criminal justice system.