Sen. Cruz said it’s an important discussion, that’s very different from ‘Pressing’ for hearings.
Seems as though the press asked Sen. McCain a question not wholly based on the words Sen. Cruz actually said.
Am I missing something?
Side note, I don’t think testing Sen. Cruz on his resolve about issues that concern him is a winning move for anyone. He strikes me as a man who will call a bluff without blinking.
And McCain strikes me as a man who could well have forgotten half the conversations he's had in the past 24 hours.
That’s how it looks to me too. The article has “pressing” in quotes but it seems like Cruz might not have actually said that.
Cruz has an opportunity here to zing McCain for being confused and overreacting if that’s the case.
Okay, did some quick googling. McCain is probably responding to this Politico story:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-2016-second-amendment-gun-rights-117133.html
It reports what Cruz said with a partial quote and a paraphrase.
The paraphrased part is where Cruz reportedly claimed to be pressing McCain, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually said he was pressing the committee, which of course has members other than John McCain, as glorious as he is.
It was indeed a misleading paraphrase in the Politico that got this rolling: