Ted Cruz was joined by his family at a CNN town hall in New York Wednesday night. The Texas senator talked policy positions and campaign life with host Anderson Cooper, but the candidate’s wife Heidi and the couple’s two young daughters stole the show.

Caroline, 8, and Catherine, 5, joined their parents on stage for part of the interview, taking soft-ball questions on topics girls of their age would normally discuss among friends and family. Catherine, who sat in her mother’s lap and kept quiet mostly, yielded the floor to Caroline, who didn’t hesitate to jump in to her father’s conversation from time to time: