Cavuto asked Cruz for his reaction to Carville who recently praised the freshman Texas senator on ABC’s This Week for being “the most talented and fearless Republican politician” he’s seen in the last three decades:
“Those were very, very kind comments,” Cruz said. “I was certainly flattered.”
“I will say, in most other circles, saying that you’re one of the better politicians is not much of a compliment in most of America,” he added with levity.
“I found it amusing that people – a number of
“My approach is to always endeavor to be polite and respectful to anyone I’m dealing with, but, at the same time, to defend common sense, conservative principles that, I think, are the values that are held throughout America in both red states and blue states,” he concluded.
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