Ted Cruz besieged by hecklers — and relishes the combat
WASHINGTON — Woe to the heckler who rises to challenge Sen. Ted Cruz.
The Texas senator — champion debater at Princeton and veteran of Supreme Court oral arguments — cannot be flapped, daunted or deterred. The dozen or so protesters who infiltrated his speech Friday at the Values Voter Summit learned that the hard way.
The supply of protesters ran out before Cruz’s stash of putdowns and comebacks.
Cruz started gently, celebrating the right to free speech when a man near the front of the hotel ballroom stood and demanded to know why he opposes a path to citizenship in the immigration debate. The next interruption got a harsher response.
“President Obama’s paid political operatives are out in force today. … Because the men and women in this room scare the living daylights out of them,” he said.
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