Cruz: Trump Should Agree to ‘Whatever Stupid Rules’ the Harris Campaign Wants

Hannity: “Can’t make it up. Here with reaction, Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Ted, senator, you’re feeling the brunt of this in Texas. You see what she’s doing, she’s running, she’s hiding, she’s trying to run out the clock, and now she says no tax on tips, and meanwhile, she was a tie-breaking vote that empowered the IRS to go after service workers. She said the border was secure. She said that inflation was transitory. Now she is going to, on day one, fix inflation, fix the border, and solve all our problems?”
Cruz: “Well, look, Kamala is running a fundamentally dishonest campaign. You know, your referenced just there day one. Day one was four years ago. Part of what’s fundamentally dishonest about the campaign is she’s pretending that she’s not the sitting vice president. She’s pretending that Joe Biden is not currently the president of the United States, that these problems are all of her own making, that the inflation we have is because of the wild spending and debt that she and Joe Biden and the Democrats did. The open border, she’s been the border czar for four years. This invasion is her fault — not only her fault, but she wanted it. Listen, I served with Kamala for years in the Senate. She has consistently been the most left-wing senator. She’s voted for open borders over and over and over again. And now this entire election, she’s trying to pretend her record doesn’t exist. Sean, it’s why she doesn’t do media interviews, it’s why she won’t answer questions, because they are very cynically trying to hide her in the basement. I think it’s Joe Biden’s basement. And I’ll point out, by the way, my reelection campaign in Texas, my opponent, Congressman Colin Allred, every bit as left-wing as Kamala Harris, he’s doing the same strategy. He’s been over 60 days without doing a press conference. He doesn’t answer questions. I think Joe Biden and Kamala and Collin Allred are in all the same basement and they’re all there for the same reason, which is they cannot defend their left-wing open borders record.”
Hannity: “So far they’ve gotten away with it. So far your opponent has gotten away with it. And I was asking this question to Newt Gingrich and he said, ‘Well, it’s the Trump campaign’s responsibility.’ But the clock is not on our side here. Early voting begins in Pennsylvania three weeks from tomorrow. We have mail-in ballots going out in North Carolina before that and other states rolling out very quickly, including Wisconsin and Michigan, senator. This is a serious crisis for our country. Now they want last minute, the debate they requested with the rules they requested and the rules they agreed to, ‘We demand a change.’ What, now she doesn’t want to debate either? My guess is she doesn’t. My guess is — and if I’m Donald Trump, I don’t think you can give in anymore. I don’t think he should ever have agreed to a debate on ABC. The questions, in my mind, are going to be written by George Stephanopoulos.”
Hannity: “So, they are going to be written by George Stephanopoulos, but look, Sean, I think Trump needs to do the debate, and frankly, I think he should agree to whatever stupid rules they want. It’s going to be hostile and rigged regardless. And I think Kamala Harris would love to cancel the debate and blame it on Trump. Look, she’s in a basement. They don’t want her challenged ever. If they have an excuse to get out of a debate, they can literally do nothing for the next 71 days except count on the corporate media to lie. And so I think Trump — “
Hannity: “Well, what if he says, ‘We already agreed to the rules. Either except a debate that you agreed to or, you know, walk away and hide.’ Don’t you think she ends up looking back on that?”
Hannity: “Yeah, but you know what, I think she would be happy to walk away from that. My advice would be, come up with whatever stupid rules you want. If you want her to wear a cheesehead while she’s debating, you want the mics hot or not, you want her to have an encyclopedia of talking points in front of her, I don’t care. I want want to stand up directly and contrast her record and mine because on every front, Donald Trump’s records, we had success in this country, we had peace, we had prosperity, we had record-low unemployment, we had a secure border, we had peace globally, and on every level Kamala’s record is a train wreck. And so my advice to the Trump campaign is, don’t get — Kamala wants to pick this fight to have an excuse to get out of the debate. Don’t let her out of the debate. We need her there because without a debate her campaign will never answer a single question between no and Election Day. And that is their only hope of winning, is focus on joy and hopey-changey stuff, and not her disastrous record.”
Hannity: “How about this? Trump is known for the art of the deal. How about this deal? ‘I’ll agree to your rule change, you agree to the second debate.’ And then put the ball back in her court. It’s the art of the deal.”
Cruz: “I think he can try, but she’ll say no. She will say no. She will not agree to a FOX debate. By the way, Trump is happy to go in front of whatever communist you put in front of him as the moderators, they’re all hostile to him, because he’s got the truth on our hands. She’s trying to lie and cover up her record. Colin Allred, my opponent, is doing the exact same thing.”