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Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016/President Obama's Cuba trip

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Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign on May 3, 2016.[1]



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  • Speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C., following the March 22, 2016, attacks in Brussels, Belgium, Ted Cruz said, “We don’t need another lecture from Obama on Islamophobia.”[2]
    • Referencing Cuban leader Raul Castro, Cruz told reporters, “The people of America deserve a president who doesn’t grovel before a communist dictator who hates America.”
    • Cruz added, “President Obama should be back in America keeping this country safe or President Obama should be planning to travel to Brussels.”[2]
  • Cruz criticized President Obama’s trip to Cuba during an interview with CNN on March 21, 2016. He said, "As Barack Obama is sitting there sipping mojitos with brutal Communist dictators, he can't be bothered to meet the dissidents, he can't be bothered to visit with the Ladies in White, he can't be bothered to hear the screams of oppression.” During the interview, Cruz also attacked Donald Trump for saying that “the U.S. should rethink its involvement in NATO.” Cruz said, "Everything I just said, I bet you dollars to donuts Donald Trump has no idea about any of that. It has been Russia's objective, it has been Putin's objective for decades to break NATO. What Donald Trump is saying that he would unilaterally surrender to Russia and Putin, give Putin a massive foreign policy victory by breaking NATO and abandoning Europe."[3]

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  1. ↑ Politico, "Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race," May 3, 2016
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Politico, "Cruz, Kasich call on Obama to return home or go to Brussels," March 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named CNN
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