Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer
Later, Cruz stood firm despite the timing of his remarks: "We can always have a discussion about public policy."
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A day after Jimmy Carter appeared on national television to talk about the cancer that's ravaging his body, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz criticized the former president's administration in a speech in Iowa.
"I think where we are today is very, very much like the late 1970s," the senator from Texas said on the Des Moines Register's political soapbox stage at the Iowa State Fair.