Cruz Talks ISIS Threat, Slams Obama Administration to GOP Crowd
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ABC News(NASHUA, N.H.) — Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the final speaker at Saturday’s Republican Leadership Summit, highlighted that it was time the United States got serious about dealing with the ISIS threat in the Middle East.
“We need a clear-eyed commander in chief who number one sets the objective and the objective is not to weaken, it’s not to degrade ISIS, it is to utterly and completely destroy ISIS,” Cruz said.
Cruz was among several Republicans to address the GOP Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire on Saturday.
The presidential candidate once again called for abolishing the IRS, and touched on some of his foreign policy positions. He slammed the Obama Administration for not sending a top official to France after the terrorist attacks there in January, saying “imagine a president who stands with our allies.”
“We all remember just a few months ago seeing over 40 world leaders walking arm and arm in solidarity with France against radical Islamic terrorism and where oh where oh where was the United States of America,” he said.
After his speech, Cruz was asked if he will vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as Attorney General.
“My vote on Loretta Lynch is going to be unambiguously, No,” Cruz said.
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