Cruz gave a non-answer. What would he do? Will he and does he fly the flag? I suspect every candidate will be asked that question tomorrow and over the coming days. Non-answers, like Cruz’s, won’t work. Will any candidate openly defend the Confederate flag? My bet is no.
The candidate who turns it around on the media accuser — IOW point out that it was a Democratic party emblem — will be ahead, immediately.
Cruz gave the right answer in saying its a local decision without taking a position against it flying like Romney and Jeb Bush did.
The local people are under pressure from the mob at this point in SC.
A protest mob has gathered as I post this in Columbia, SC at the site of the flag......
I have no problem with it flying away from the State Capitol like it does now, but if SC wants to put it in a museum that’s fine with me, too.