Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton are trading blows over the government’s role in healthcare for women.
Cruz claims the former secretary of state has misrepresented the GOP’s views, while Clinton’s campaign argues that the Texas senator has engaged in revisionist history.
Cruz got excited at a campaign event in Iowa when talking about Clinton and other Democrats’ claims that Republicans want to limit access to birth control.
“Every country you touched as secretary of state is a disaster. So what do you do? You go aha! The condom police,” Cruz said as the crowd laughed. “I’m going to make up a completely made-up threat and try to scare a bunch of folks that are not paying a lot of attention into thinking someone’s going to steal their birth control. What nonsense.”
Cruz also lambasted Republicans response to Democrats’ claims of a GOP “war on women.”
“When the war on women came up, Republicans would curl up in a ball and they’d say, Don’t hurt me.’ Jiminy Cricket!” Cruz exclaimed. “This is a made-up nonsense example. Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America.”
The Clinton campaign responded on Tuesday by detailing Cruz’s efforts to “undermine women’s healthcare” in a statement.
“Ted Cruz’s colorful comments can’t hide his revisionist history on the sustained Republican effort to restrict access to women’s healthcare,” said Christina Reynolds, a Clinton spokeswoman. “As Cruz tries to police women’s healthcare decisions and deny a war on women, Hillary Clinton will fight every day to protect them against this seemingly endless Republican assault.”
While Cruz and Clinton bicker about the GOP’s views on women’s healthcare, the Texas senator has also come under fire from fellow GOP candidate Chris Christie and America’s Renewable Future, a political group that supports ethanol mandates. Cruz ranks second in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power rankings.
