Cruz: ‘Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan’
.@tedcruz: "The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan… The Klan was founded by a great many Democrats." https://t.co/WJhdVlaNzY pic.twitter.com/8dNXHVTD5D
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed Democrats on Wednesday for their opposition to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), President Trump’s nominee for attorney general.
“When the left doesn’t have any other arguments, they go and just accuse everyone of being a racist, and it’s an ugly, ugly part of the modern Democratic Party,” Cruz said during an interview on Fox News.
“Listen, the Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan. You look at the most racists, you look at … the Dixiecrats, they were Democrats who imposed segregation, imposed Jim Crow laws,” he added.
Cruz criticized Democrats for raising allegations of racism against Sessions over comments he made decades ago.
{mosads}Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday evening was barred from speaking on the Senate floor after she quoted a 1986 speech from the Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) calling Sessions a “disgrace” to the Justice Department.
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