Cruz Shuts Down Media Attempt to Use Storm to Attack GOP

More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

On Monday afternoon, liberal news anchors on CNN and MSNBC were so desperate to find a way to exploit Hurricane Harvey and attack Republicans that they grilled Texas Senator Ted Cruz on his legitimate objections to pork barrel spending shoved into a relief bill for Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Cruz corrected their misleading descriptions of the five-year-old legislation and called out the attempt to engage in “political sniping.”