I just now left Wesleyan University, where Ted Cruz held a campaign rally. It was an impressive turnout of well over 1,000 people. The senator spoke with energy and really connected with the crowd. I appreciated much of what he had to say, but he lost me each time he spoke on defense and foreign policy matters.
I most disappointed in the demagoguery he employed when expressing his opposition to the Iranian nuclear agreement. He began by pledging to tear up the agreement as one of his first acts in office. That got the crowd on their feet. He then said that if the deal is implemented, the U.S. will become the world’s leading financier of terrorism. Cruz has recently received criticism from the press and even Republican party leaders for making this claim elsewhere, so repeating it in front of the Bartlesville crowd was his way of being bold.