Publicly, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz is keeping his head down on the furor that erupted around the Confederate flag flying on South Carolina’s capitol grounds after a white racist slaughtered 9 black people in a church. But behind the scenes, his South Carolina campaign managers are fighting to keep the flag.
Last week, only two South Carolina state senators voted against removing the flag. They’re two of Cruz’s three co-managers of his presidential campaign for that state.
In his public statements, Cruz tries to straddle the fence. He told Fox Latino News that he “understands both sides of the debate.”
But he also favored the pro-flag side by decrying “people from outside of the state coming in and dictating how they should resolve it” and supporting “those who want to remember the sacrifices of their ancestors and the … historical traditions of their states” instead of those who see the flag as symbolizing “racial oppression and … slavery.”
Photo: Is Sen. Cruz running for President of the Confederate States of America?