Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, channeling his funny side, went on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and bantered easily with the comic.
Naturally, Meyers asked about Cruz’s apparent frightening of a 3-year old girl during a weekend campaign trip to New Hampshire. Cruz, in a rhetorical flourish, was warning about the dangers of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy and said, “The world is on fire.”
The girl, seemingly concerned, asked if that was right and Cruz said yes but sought to reassure her.
“But,” said Meyers, “You put a scare into a 3-year-old.” After all, he said, after showing the clip, “The important lesson there is you just realize kids are terrible with metaphors.”
Cruz replied that news reports were wrong and that he spoke with the girl’s mother who said the child thinks of him as a “fireman” who will put the fire out.
Cruz reminded Meyers that he had read Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” during an all-nighter Senate speech. (Cruz was reading it for his two young daughters home in Houston.)
“I poll very well in the 3 to 6 demographic,” said Cruz.
Cruz is exploring a presidential run but his staff will not discuss time lines for an announcement other than to say they expect the field to form by June.
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