Why Ted Cruz’s father could become a campaign liability

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But Rafael Cruz has said far more incendiary things, and his remarks are sure to draw increased scrutiny now that his son has formally declared his intention to run for the White House.

For instance, there was the time in February of 2013, when Rafael Cruz told an audience of like-minded conservatives that black voters were “uninformed” and had been “deceived” by Democrats into thinking they were the party that best served the interests of their community.
“All the civil rights that the African-Americans have obtained have come from Republicans,” Papa Cruz said at the time.

Ted Cruz’s reps have gone on record saying “Pastor Cruz does not speak for the Senator,” but the 75-year-old ordained evangelical minister is an outspoken man with a healthy following, and his history of broadsides against liberals will not be easily forgotten.

In just the last four years, Rafael Cruz has suggested that gay marriage is a government conspiracy, that President Obama is pro-murder and remarkably similar to Fidel Castro, and argued that American media are serving as a “ministry of information” seeking to destroy the country from within.

As recently as this month, Pastor Cruz told an audience in Hutchinson, Kansas, that if Hillary Clinton were elected in 2016 “this country will be destroyed.”

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