The Note: Coffee with Cruz
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--TED CRUZ TAKES QUESTIONS LIVE ON ‘GOOD MORNING AMERICA.’ Sen. Ted Cruz started his morning with "Good Morning America" today as he opened up on air about the presidential campaign. When asked about his competitor Donald Trump’s calling the primary process "rigged," Cruz responded by saying it was typical of the real estate mogul. "Donald is not a complicated man to understand,” Cruz said today, ABC’s MEGHAN KENEALLY notes. “He doesn't handle losing well.” He fielded questions from a group of registered Republicans, talking about guns, religious liberty and so-called New York values. http://abcn.ws/1Vdn8cO
--TED CRUZ RESPONDS TO GAY MAN ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Sen. Ted Cruz today invoked the protections included in the Constitution when a gay man asked the GOP candidate about his work protecting the rights of gay voters. Responding to a question from Todd Calogne, a married gay man who is a registered Republican and owner of a pizza parlor in NYC, Cruz said the Constitution protects the rights of all citizens equally. "When it comes to religious liberty, religious liberty is something that protects all of us; it applies to Christians, it applies to Jews, it applies to Muslims, it applies to atheists," Cruz said during a “GMA” town hall. When asked further about the Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage nationally and what would happen to gay people who are already married, Cruz said marriage laws should be settled on the state level rather than the federal level, ABC’s MEGHAN KENEALLY reports. http://abcn.ws/1Nx49SJ
--MISSED THE TOWN HALL? Here are highlights from Ted Cruz’s town hall on “Good Morning America,” courtesy of ABC’s RYAN STRUYK, PAOLA CHAVEZ and VERONICA STRACQUALURSI. The Republican candidate was joined onstage by his wife, Heidi Cruz. http://abcn.ws/1SgensK
DISS OF THE DAY with ABC’s MERIDITH MCGRAW -- BERNIE AND HILLARY'S DISCLOSURES AND WITHHOLDINGS. On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took turns taking swipes at each other’s track record on transparency. When pressed about her campaign's hesitancy to publish transcripts of high dollar speeches commissioned by Wall Street firms on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Clinton suggested her campaign is held to a different standard of scrutiny than Sanders'. “You know, we have certain expectations when you run for president, one of which is rules all of your tax returns, ever since you've been in public life. That's what I've done and 33 years of them are in the public domain, eight years are on my Web site,” said Clinton in a dig at the one year of tax returns Sanders made public on Friday. On CNN’s State of the Union, Dana Bash asked if Sanders plans to follow Clinton's lead and release additional years of tax returns. “We will post more of them,” said Sanders. But then he also snuck in a swing. “To be honest with you, our tax returns showed us that we made more money -- we made less money in a given year than Secretary Clinton made in one speech.”
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