‘Really?’: CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Ted Cruz Clash for 20 Minutes
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and CNN’s Chris Cuomo are exchanging jabs. The two butt heads for roughly 20 minutes during Cruz’s Wednesday night interview on CNN. During the interview, Cuomo asked Cruz about President Donald…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and CNN’s Chris Cuomo are exchanging jabs.
The two butt heads for roughly 20 minutes during Cruz’s Wednesday night interview on CNN.
During the interview, Cuomo asked Cruz about President Donald Trumpnot condemning white supremacist groups during the first presidential debate when asked if he would. Cuomo said, “Now, I will exercise my right and say, was the president wrong to go soft on the proud boys in the debate last night?”
Cruz mentioned that he had wished Trump was “much clearer in his denunciation,” but he was “glad today that he walked that back.” Before the senator finished, Cuomo interjected saying, “No he didn’t.”
“Really?” Cuomo said when Cruz took aim at the press and said, “Ten years ago, 2010, Joe Biden gave a eulogy for Robert Byrd who was a Grand Cyclops of the KKK.”
Cuomo then hit back, “You’re going to go with this weak-a** argument here? Byrd, who had a complete enlightenment about how hate was wrong, who changed his life, who spoke about it.”
The two then began speaking over one another as things got heated. Cuomo went on to say, “I don’t want you to run away from the premise. did it in Charlottesville, he did it with David Duke. The old Ted Cruz