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Letters: Readers respond to editorial calling for Sen. Cruz to resign
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), wearing a face mask featuring the embroidered words come and take it, leaves after a vote at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 17,, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)ERIN SCHAFF, STF / NYT
Regarding “Resign, Sen. Cruz. Your lies cost lives,” (A16, Jan. 10): Thank you for your editorial urging Sen. Ted Cruz to resign. Cruz, like Donald Trump, doesn’t want the job he was entrusted with. Again, like Trump, he wants the role to play and the personal prestige and self aggrandizement that comes with the title while taking no personal responsibility for actually serving the country, his constituents or the Constitution. His cynical and pandering attempts to now decry the violence he helped unleash is absolutely disgusting. He was prepared to lie to the American people for his own political gain, with no regard for the consequences to others. Now he need