MSNBC interrupted its regular programming schedule Wednesday to cut away to a “breaking news” story about a protester who accused Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, of being a “right-wing bigot.”
“Breaking News: Protester: Cruz Is ‘Right-Wing Bigot,'” read an on-screen graphic as journalist Vaughn Hillyard reported that the Texas senator was heckled at an event in New York.
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“He was calling [Cruz] a racist bigot,” the reporter said. “He was calling him a right-wing bigot that has no place in the Bronx. The man started yelling that this is an immigrant community.”
The protester reportedly explained to the senator that the Bronx is a “low-income community.”
Hillyard said, “In this particular congressional district in the Bronx, this is a 65 percent Hispanic community, 25 percent African-American.”
“[T]his is [Cruz’s] welcome,” he added.
The senator is a Cuban-American. His father fled the Bautista regime in Cuba in 1957.
