Cruz turns tables on CNBC for ‘cage match’ questions | Washington Examiner
Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday excoriated the CNBC moderators for the third Republican presidential primary debate for turning the event into a “cage match” that was trying to trip up the candidates and ignore substantive issues.From the start, the debate moderators asked a series of pointed questions that pit candidates against each other and attempted to poke holes in some of their policy proposals. When asked by moderator Carl Quintanilla about raising the federal debt ceiling, Cruz had enough and turned the tables on the questioners.”The questions that you’ve asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” Cruz said to thundering applause from the audience.He then accused moderators of focusing only on the negatives, like Sen. Marco Rubio’s skipped Senate votes and Jeb Bush’s falling poll numbers, and accused them of trying to quiz Ben Carson on his tax plan to see if he can “do math.”
Source: Cruz turns tables on CNBC for ‘cage match’ questions | Washington Examiner
