Ted Cruz

And you know who he doesn't praise?

Americans.

When have you ever heard him speak as positively about Abraham Lincoln as he does about Castro and Ortega and Mao and Stalin?

Listen, communism also hates God.

If you look at these communist regimes, they persecute

Faith, they persecute, they prevent people from... The beauty of the First Amendment is it gives everyone the right to choose how to worship what your faith will be.

You know, Bernie, when he praised China in the debate this week, somehow when Bernie talked about its great poverty eradication, you don't have to go back to Mao to find the torture and murder.

Right now today, there are one million Uyghurs...

A religious and ethnic minority.

One million in concentration camps in China today.

Why?

is burning and why are leftists so willing to praise and be proud of regimes that are torturing and murdering people?

In the schools, you would have Cuban soldiers come in, and this is kindergarten, first grade.

And they'd tell the children, they'd say, close your eyes and pray to Jesus for a piece of candy.

And the kids would all do it and they'd open their eyes and there'd be no candy.

And then the soldiers would say, close your eyes and pray to Fidel Castro.

for a piece of candy.

You're kidding me.

And the kids would close their eyes and the soldiers would put candy on their desks.

And they'd open their eyes and there was candy.