Cruz touts himself as the only true conservative in the GOP field.Įarlier this week, Cruz went on the attack against The Wall Street Journal for its coverage of his competitor, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Cruz is just 4 percentage points behind front-runner Donald Trump. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, Cruz surged to second place over retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in the Republican presidential race. Telnaes also joined in the conversation, tweeting, "Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad-don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well." "I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree." "It's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it," he said. In an online statement that replaced the drawing, Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor of the Post, said he failed to look at the cartoon before it was published.
It was released just days after his recent presidential campaign advertisement aired on TV, titled "Ted Cruz's Christmas Classics," which features him sitting with his family, reading politically related Christmas stories to his two daughters. The cartoon, drawn by Ann Telnaes, featured Cruz in a Santa Claus costume and cowboy boots, winding a music box with the words "Cruz 2016" on it as two leashed monkeys danced in elf costumes in front of him. Later that night, he used the cartoon in a fundraising pitch and said he is "sickened" by the image. It shows him reading his daughters politically themed Christmas stories, like "How Obamacare Stole Christmas" and "Rudolph the Underemployed Reindeer." Catherine is 5, and Caroline is 7.The Washington Post pulled a controversial editorial cartoon on Tuesday night that had depicted Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's young daughters as dancing monkeys.įollowing its publication, the fiery freshman senator from Texas lashed out against the newspaper on Twitter, mockingly calling it "classy" and telling the staff to stick with attacking him instead of his grade-school daughters, Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4.
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The Cruz campaign released the TV commercial last week. "Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well," she wrote there. She declined further comment on Wednesday, but was unapologetic on Twitter. "When a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father's dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game," she wrote. Telnaes initially explained her reason for putting the Cruz children in a cartoon in a post that was published along with it.
I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree." "I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. "It's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it," he wrote. The Post replaced it with a message of explanation from Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. The cartoon was drawn by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes. ASHINGTON - The Washington Post pulled a cartoon from its site Tuesday that depicted Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's young daughters as monkeys, the New York Times reported Wednesday.Īlthough Cruz, a senator from Texas, angrily denounced the cartoon on Twitter - in a tweet that included the cartoon - he seized on the opportunity to use it in an email that sought to bring in US$1 million in contributions to his political campaign.
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