Ted Cruz: Most violent felons are Democrats

Ted Cruz, the Texas senator, made the remark on The Hugh Hewitt Show, a radio programme aimed at religious conservatives. He also added that “the media never reports on any of that, doesn’t want to admit any of that”.

This whole episode has really displayed the ugly underbelly of media.

Within that percentage, only 24.6 percent of those violent ex-felons – 5,894 individuals – registered to vote. Instead, he called for “overwhelming air power” and cited the “saturation bombing” of the first Gulf War in Iraq that he said featured roughly 1,100 air attacks a day for more than a month.

Planned Parenthood shooter, Robert Lewis Dear, reportedly told authorities “no more baby parts”, after he killed three people at a clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday.

During the interview, Cruz said he believes Democrats are soft on crime because “an overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats”.

When Obama nominated Adegbile to the civil rights post, conservative media blasted him as a “cop killer coddler”, a refrain which helped Republicans in the Senate pressure vulnerable Democrats into voting against his nomination.

“The state of NY, among felons that were released and registered to vote, 62 percent registered as Democrat”. And if Im elected president, I will make unambiguously clear that we will destroy ISIS — not weaken it, not degrade it, but utterly destroy it, ” he says, using one of the several acronyms for the group. In the study, University of Pennsylvania’s Marc Meredith and Stanford University’s Michael Morse found that ex-felons who register to vote in only three specific states – North Carolina, New York and New Mexico – have overwhelmingly registered as Democrats.

In those three states, party registration of the ex-felons studied was heavily Democratic.

Cruz declined to say whether he supports allowing whats known as the PRISM program, which allows the NSA to obtain secret court orders and collect intelligence about foreign threats via U.S. Internet companies.

But Cruz has embraced his outsider image as he seeks to position himself as a more electable alternative to billionaire Donald Trump and retired surgeon Ben Carson, two inexperienced front-runners who have so far captivated their party’s most passionate voters.

Indeed, Manza told us that he is aware of no direct survey of the felon population that asked about partisanship, meaning Cruz “has no direct evidence for what he said”.

In other words, the study does not show what Cruz claimed. “But the data suggest that the prevalence of Democrats among ex-felons may have to do with basic demographics, not their criminal record”, they wrote in the piece. The media never reports on the partisan breakdown of violent criminals because no such breakdown exists.

“Senator Cruz is making a point that a lot of liberals rush to judgment to pin this on the pro-life movement and that is completely misguided”.