In an interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Monday, GOP presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz dropped an inconvenient truthbomb on the left’s current narrative about how the “hateful rhetoric” of “abortion foes” caused a lunatic to shoot up a Planned Parenthood in Colorado.
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Now listen, here’s the simple and undeniable fact. “An overwhelming amount of felons actually vote as Democrats and he’s pushing back against that narrative that a lot of people want to put on conservatives to blame them for inciting this horrific shooting”. In the study, University of Pennsylvania’s Marc Meredith and Stanford University’s Michael Morse found that ex-felons who register to vote in only three specific states – North Carolina, New York and New Mexico – have overwhelmingly registered as Democrats.
A rep for the Cruz campaign said the senator was referencing a paper titled “Do Voting Rights Notification Laws Increase Ex-Felon Turnout?” “There, 55 percent of the felons who were released registered as Democrats, 10 percent registered as Republicans”.
When ABC News asked Cruz about his remarks today, he said he was “engaging in a process that is called “reasonable inference”. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015.
The Nevada Democrat pointed to businessman Donald Trump’s refusal to disavow a supporter who beat up a Black Lives Matter protester, Ben Carson’s comparison of refugees to dogs, and Sen. They go in, and they do what Barack Obama tried to do, which is appoint a lawyer voluntarily represented for free, a cop killer, to a senior Justice Department position.
“And I would note that this whole episode has really displayed the ugly underbelly of the media”, Cruz said.
“The short response to Cruz, then, is that there’s no evidence to suggest that the “overwhelming majority” of violent felons are Democrats”.
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The authors did say that, but they also said that an even greater percentage of people convicted of a violent crime registered as unaffiliated or with a minor party.
