Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Monday that the vast majority of violent criminals self-describe themselves politically as Democrats.
During an interview with “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” the Texas senator argued that the “overwhelming majority” of that violent criminals identify as such. He said it’s a reason why Democrats are viewed as being “soft on crime,” and said the media plays a big role in the process.
“Every time you have some sort of violent crime or mass killing you can almost see the media salivating — hoping, hoping desperately that the murderer happens to be a Republican so that they can use it to try and paint their political enemies,” Cruz told host Hugh Hewitt.
“Here is the simple and undeniable fact: the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats,” Cruz said. “The media doesn’t report that.”
“There is a reason why the Democrats for years have been viewed as soft on crime,” Cruz said. “They go in and appoint to the bench judges who release violent criminals.
“They go in and they do what Barack Obama tried to do, which is appoint a lawyer who voluntarily represented for free a cop killer to a senior Justice Department position, that they go in and fight to give the right to vote to convicted felons,” the Texas senator said. “Why? Because the Democrats know that convicted felons tend to vote Democrat. … The media never reports on any of that. It doesn’t want to admit any of that.”
The 2016 hopeful and Iowa front-runner went on to tell the host that the situation is “one of the more egregious examples” of media bias.
“You can see that every time there’s a terrible crime they’re so excited — ‘come on, please be a Republican so we can try and paint the other side,'” Cruz said. “It is one of the more egregious examples of media bias and it’s something we see over and over and over again.”
Cruz, who is now alongside Donald Trump atop polling in Iowa, is currently ranked second in the Washington Examiner’s latest power rankings.
