While Alberto Fernández was received this Wednesday, March 29, at the White House by President Joe Bidenthe focus of attention shifted to Ted Cruzthe Republican senator who caused a stir in the ruling party following presenting a Bill for the United States government to investigate and punish Cristina Kirchner for corruption. In this framework, the Argentine president supported his running mate and disqualified Cruz, whom he defined as “a political delusional“.
This is the leader of the Republican Party who in 2016 ran to compete in the Republican presidential primaries, with adverse results, since he was defeated at that time by Donald Trump.
However, his parliamentary activity dates back to 2012 and he managed to renew his seat in 2018.
Cruz’s political trajectory was rooted in an ultra-conservative stance. Indeed, the Republican leader questioned the election result who positioned Joe Biden as president of the United States and voted once morest his consecration.
His decision at that time was severely criticized by the Democratic bloc since although he verbally condemned the storming the capitolhis vote once morest the certification of the results of the 2020 elections revealed an “opportunistic” and “hypocritical” move, according to sectors allied to Biden.
Another of the senator’s disagreements with the Democrats is linked to his anti-abortion, anti-immigration position. He also opposed the decriminalization of drug use and marriage equality.
In February 2021, he starred in a controversy when he was surprised by Holidays in cancunwhile the citizens of Texas suffered the effects of a ola polar that left them without water or electricity.
Texas state congressman Gene Wu had posted a photo of the senator aboard the flight on Twitter, explaining that Cruz was flying to Cancun “while the state is freezing to death and having to boil the water.”
After the criticism received, the Republican tried to justify himself to maintain a good reputation. “Because school was canceled for the week, our girls asked us to go on a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good father, I flew with them last night and will return this followingnoon.“, he expressed.
Alberto Fernández on Ted Cruz: “He’s a delusional politician”
President Alberto Fernández described as “a political delusion” Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who presented a bill to the US Congress to require the Joe Biden government to investigate Vice President Cristina Kirchner for corruption.
“President Biden Obviously, he did not touch that topic at all, which is only the product of a delusional politician from the United States. Political marginals are everywhere, including in the United States“, sentenced the head of state during a press conference that lasted just over 12 minutes.
Within the framework of the presidential tour whose last stop was the United States, Alberto Fernández specified that during the bilateral meeting he shared this followingnoon with his US counterpart, they agreed that they were united by having received “a destroyed economy” from the governments that preceded them.
“Three times (Joe Biden) said that we had something in common, which is having inherited a destroyed economy from the governments that preceded us,” the President stressed.
Alberto Fernández’s response to a Spanish journalist who asked him regarding his re-election
In another section of the brief press conference, the head of state was asked by a Spanish journalist regarding whether he would be a candidate in this year’s presidential elections, to which he humorously replied: “Look if I’m going to give a Spanish woman that scoop“.
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“We have not yet taken any definition. I have all my commitment and effort put into government management, which is what Argentina needs from me at this time, which is very difficult for the country due to that drought that I spoke regarding before,” he explained. .
And he completed the answer: “I have my head stuck in that problem together with the chancellor [Santiago Cafiero]the Minister of Economy [Sergio Massa] and all my team. The truth is that I am not thinking regarding my re-election. Yes I am thinking regarding the victory of our space and for that I am working”.
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