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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly

Ted Cruz angrily quits interview after being confronted about gun control

Senator Ted Cruz addresses the media the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Senator Ted Cruz addresses the media the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Photograph: Veronica Cardenas/Reuters

The Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz confronted a British reporter and angrily left an interview after he was asked why school shootings like that in Uvalde, where 19 children and two adults were killed, happen so often in the US.

“I’m sorry you think American exceptionalism is awful,” Cruz said. “You’ve got your political agenda. God love you.”

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