Cruz is correct. How else would you have him state it? It is a state matter, not a Federal/U.S. government matter.
He may not personally believe the Confederate flag should be flown on government property. Who knows.
“How else would you have him state it?”
I would like him to say, “I agree with Lee Bright; it is comparable to a Stalinist Purge. The race-baiting poverty pimps are making something of nothing in an attempt to harm the United States, and I intend to do everything in my power to get them before grand juries for indictment.”
Not, “Well, it (weasel, squirm) should (weasel, squirm) be (weasel, squirm) a (weasel, squirm) state (weasel, squirm) matter (flee in terror).
He’s weak.