Cruz’s speech following IA Caucuses rubs a focus group of New Hampshire voters the wrong way
One line from Ted Cruz’s victory speech following the Iowa caucuses Monday night appeared to really rub a focus group of New Hampshire voters the wrong way.
The Texas senator was accused by some of taking too long to thank the people of Iowa for his win, despite the most recent polling showing him trailing by a few points.
At one point in his over 30 minute remarks, Cruz quoted Psalm 30:5, saying, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
“As a whole the group started to get neutral, it started to dip — the line started to dip there because they didn’t really like what he was saying,” the CNN’s Randi Kaye noted.
The New Hampshire woman added, that he remained undecided who to vote for during next week’s primary in the Granite State, but had all but eliminated Cruz, after listening to the speech and was leaning towards Florida senator Marco Rubio.
Cruz actually used the scripture as a launching point to talk about morning coming to America, which was the theme of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign. The Texas senator came back to the line as he closed his speech, saying, “Iowa has made clear to America and the world, morning is coming.”
“When our work is done, here is what history will say of this generation,” he said expectantly to a crowd of enthusiastic supporters. “It will say that we lived in the early years of this new century, in an uncertain and difficult time, but we remember who we were. We rose up to the challenge of our time. We confronted our problems and solved them.”