“What did he blame Trump for?”
Ted Cruz accused Trump of encouraging the violence and blamed Trump’s campaign of committing violence in the following quotation of his remarks:
[Ted Cruz] I also want to mention something about the events this evening, in Chicago. This is a sad day. Political discourse should occur in this country without a threat of violence, without anger, and rage and hatred directed at each other. We need to learn to have disagreements without being disagreeable, to have disagreements while respecting human beings on the other side. Earlier today over thirty people were arrested in one rally, and then tonight as violence broke out the rally was canceled altogether. Now the responsibility for that lies with protestors who took violence into their own hands. But in any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate who is responsible for the culture of the campaign, and when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty [unintelligible].
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[Ted Cruz] I think the decision should be based on public safety. But I think a campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment when the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence to punch people in the face. The predictable consequence of that is that it escalates, and today is unlikely to be the last such instance. We saw earlier today in St. Louis over thirty arrested. That’s not how our politics should occur. You know, the City of Chicago in 1968 saw some ugly days, when politics descended into hatred and instability and even violence, and it is my hope that in 2016 that we can appeal to our better angels avoid going down that road once again.
With Ted Cruz and his supporters, the stabbing never stops.
Do you know those nasty Trump people keep telling those compassionate #Blacklivesmatter advocates that ALL LIVES MATTER? And illegal aliens and Muslims from a part of the world where we are at war need to be sent home?
I know it because the signs and the writing on the t-shirts of the rioters made it clear exactly what upset them.
How could Trump hold those upsetting positions and say such mean things?
I think it's a hoot that Cruz says "the candidate URGES SUPPORTERS to engage in physical violence", and expects people to not think, "What? His supporters didn't engage in violence. His supporters were the VICTIMS of violence."