I completely agree with this statement. Obvious (to me) Cruz was no longer talking about the canceled event when he said:
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 discourse.
Disrespects the voters? By not showing up at a rally? Cruz is obviously talking about something else, not a rally that didn't happen beccause of 'protester' 'violence'. At least that is how I read it. He does go on to say 'affirmatively encourages violence'. I thought it was obvious he was talking about the event a couple days earlier when someone at a rally hit a protester that was being escorted out, and at some point DT said something about 'knock the crap out of them'. 'Nasty discourse', to me, certainly doesn't describe 'rioters', so, again, it is obvious to me that he wasn't talking about 'protests' (the media word?, when it was more of a 'riot').
That outlines what I read/heard when that statement was reported. If someone else wants to think that Trump canceling and not even showing at a rally was what Cruz was talking about when he said 'campaign...encourages violence', I can't change their mind. I just think that when he said that, he was talking about, well, when Trump actually 'encouraged violence'. Makes perfect sense to me, and I think it would make sense to anyone that objectively looks at it. But that is hard to do these days, especially on this forum...
Nice try, but the FACT is Cruz was blaming Trump for his rallies being attacked and disrupted.
NOTHING he says encourages violence and Cruz knows very well that those whose constitutional rights are under siege are entitled to fight back. We are NOT going to surrender to the Left and it is about time Cruz helped rather than hurt.
It isn’t Trump who is disrespecting the voters but Cruz who is only staying in this to cancel out the biggest set of voters - those for Trump.