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Cruz: ‘I Agree in Many Ways with Bernie Sanders’
Mediaite ^ | 1/3/16 | Lindsay Ellefson

Posted on 02/03/2016 7:34:41 PM PST by Mozilla

As Donald Trump spent his week attacking Ted Cruz while trying to win favor in New Hampshire, Cruz took a much different approach: He praised his Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders. Cruz knew that the state is notorious for its regionalistic voting when he spoke highly of the Vermont senator to a crowd in Henniker this afternoon.

“In diagnosing the problem, I agree in many ways with Bernie Sanders,” he said, according to Politico‘s Katie Glueck. “I enjoy watching the media folks. They’re very puzzled when they say, ‘Gosh, Ted, you sound exactly like Bernie, saying it’s all big money and lobbyists and corruption.’ Well, you know what? That’s right. It is. Washington is corrupt.”

He went on to say that the real division in politics is not between Republicans or Democrats, but between career officials in Washington and their constituents before concluding that the only difference between him and Sanders was their proposed solutions to the mutually agreed-upon problem.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; cruz; elections
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Just posting for your information. It sounds like he agrees with the problems not the solutions.
1 posted on 02/03/2016 7:34:41 PM PST by Mozilla
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To: Mozilla

Cruz has a lot of Career beltway guys and robbing Trump helped them keep it that way for now.


2 posted on 02/03/2016 7:36:24 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (Savage BLASTS Megyn Kelly, Fox News Over Treatment Of Trump)
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To: Mozilla

Both Cruz and Sanders agree that illegal immigration is bad and that gun control is bad.

Cruz is more emphatic on both of these points but Sanders does basically agree with these two rather important points.


3 posted on 02/03/2016 7:37:17 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: Mozilla

Oh no, Cruz! Don’t agree with Bernie about anything. He’s an admitted Socialist.


4 posted on 02/03/2016 7:38:09 PM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: Mozilla

Oh no, Cruz! Don’t agree with Bernie about anything. He’s an admitted Socialist.


5 posted on 02/03/2016 7:38:09 PM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: Mozilla

Heck, I agree with Sanders on the problems. It is just bat crazy communism has never SOLVED any of those problems, which are thousands of years old. Look up Diocletian and what he did to money.


6 posted on 02/03/2016 7:38:27 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (ANOTHER)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Trump was “robbed”...

That’s pathetic.

If that’s all it takes to roll Trump wait until he gets to DC...


7 posted on 02/03/2016 7:39:06 PM PST by DB
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To: lonestar67

Sanders wants people to be able to sue gun dealers and manufacturers out of existence.

Not exactly “gun control” but...


8 posted on 02/03/2016 7:39:31 PM PST by digger48
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To: Mozilla

Tricky Dickie Cruz is now a socialist, just in time for NH.


9 posted on 02/03/2016 7:40:24 PM PST by heights
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To: heights

Delusional or an outright liar. Which are you?


10 posted on 02/03/2016 7:47:15 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Mozilla

Considering Cruz gets a ton of money from lobbyists, he is being disingenuous.


11 posted on 02/03/2016 7:48:33 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: heights
Oh...B.S.

Is that the most intellectual comment..that you can muster?

12 posted on 02/03/2016 7:50:17 PM PST by Osage Orange (Nowadays we are just Central America with snow.)
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To: Mozilla

Ted ought to include his top advisors in that group of DC folks


13 posted on 02/03/2016 7:51:19 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mozilla

This is stupid. Never ever give props to your enemies


14 posted on 02/03/2016 7:53:45 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: digger48

I thought he voted against that and Hillary is using that against him?


15 posted on 02/03/2016 7:56:01 PM PST by Rusty0604 (1q)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

-——Cruz has a lot of Career beltway guys and robbing Trump helped them keep it that way for now.-——

What did Cruz rob from Trump? Iowa ?

I know it’s hard to understand but conservative voters vote for conservative candidates....


16 posted on 02/03/2016 8:02:52 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Rusty0604

You’re right. I got it wrong.

But looking through his actual comments on the subject, they pretty much mirror what Obama says publicly about guns.

Close gun show loophole.
Ban semi-auto assault rifles “designed only to kill people”
“sensible” gun control
Expanded background checks
Mental health

yada yada


17 posted on 02/03/2016 8:07:47 PM PST by digger48
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To: Mozilla

Sanders has addressed many problems as a country we face....so Cruz is right to agree with them....

The difference is their solutions....

Cruz is based on capitiaism and market forces, constitutional principles, the other would make Mao smile...

The concept of addressing public policy issues has always been the same coin, just different sides of it...


18 posted on 02/03/2016 8:09:41 PM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: digger48

-Sanders wants people to be able to sue gun dealers and manufacturers out of existence.

Not exactly “gun control” but...

He flip flopped on this like a week ago and his heart isn’t in it.

Sanders is basically an old line socialist who tends to be skeptical about gun control, free trade, and mass immigration.


19 posted on 02/03/2016 8:10:14 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: Osage Orange

Cruz was a tub-thumping evangelical for Iowa; now he’s an open-minded `free thinker’ for New Hampshire.
That’s something that doesn’t require a degree in poly sci or law to figure out: Ted’s all things for all people.


20 posted on 02/03/2016 8:11:39 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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