Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, mocked former President Bill Clinton Thursday over the negative press he’s generated on his book tour for comments he made about Monica Lewinsky and the #MeToo movement.
“By the way, his recent media tour is going well,” Cruz said at the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority luncheon in Washington, D.C., drawing laughs from the conservative crowd, per Politico.
“We might actually want to pay Hillary to go on one,” he continued, in reference to the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. “If we could get Hillary to go to swing states between now and November, perhaps every day, that would be really, really good. Because there might be some voters left that she hasn’t insulted yet.”
Bill Clinton has repeatedly been asked whether he would change how he handled his extramarital affair with Lewinsky in the #MeToo era as he promotes the political thriller he wrote with James Patterson, The President is Missing.
The 42nd president irked supporters and critics alike when he told NBC on Monday that he didn’t need to privately apologize to Lewinsky over her treatment following their affair became public knowledge, adding that he wouldn’t approach the scandal any differently because he had been exonerated by the facts.
He walked back his defensive reaction in subsequent appearances.
During his address Thursday, Cruz tried to gin up support for the Republican Party, highlighting its political and policy accomplishments ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
He made his remarks about the Clintons in the context of calling the repeal of Obamacare the GOP’s “biggest unfinished promise.”
”That was one of the things that led Bill Clinton to describe Obamacare as ‘the craziest thing in the world,’” he said, referring to statements Clinton made on the 2016 presidential campaign trail while stumping for his wife.
