Texas Sen. Ted Cruz countered President Obama’s plan to commemorate victims of gun violence with a pro-life message of his own.
On Friday, Obama announced that he would leave one seat empty in the president’s guest box during the State of the Union address to honor the victims of gun violence. In response, Cruz tweeted that he would leave the seat empty if elected president for an entirely different reason.
“If I’m elected POTUS, there’ll be an empty seat for the over 50 million unborn children killed since Roe #Stand4Life,” Cruz tweeted on Friday afternoon.
If I’m elected POTUS, there’ll be an empty seat for the over 50 million unborn children killed since Roe #Stand4Life https://t.co/BgBy8yYKYd
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 8, 2016
Cruz has come under fire from the White House in recent days, as Obama spokesman Josh Earnest has criticized a fundraising pitch from the Texas senator’s presidential campaign and talked about Cruz’s Canadian birthplace.
Cruz ranks first in the Washington Examiner‘s newest GOP presidential power rankings.
