Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) declared that “the era of Obama lawlessness is over” in the wake of last night’s elections, and there are signs that the Republicans are already turning their fire on Hillary Clinton’s expected 2016 presidential campaign.
“As President Obama said himself, his policies were on the ballot and the voters spoke loud and clear. Obamacare was on the ballot, it lost,” Cruz said in a Wednesday statement. “Amnesty was on the ballot, it lost. The Obama Economy was on the ballot, it lost. The Obama-Clinton foreign policy was on the ballot, it lost.”
Cruz’s foreign policy dig is one of the milder GOP jabs at the Democratic favorite for 2016. One of Cruz’s potential rivals for the Republican nomination, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, also tied the election results to Clinton.
“It is a repudiation basically of the president’s policies, but also Hillary Clinton,” Paul said.
Paul and Cruz’s refrain has also been taken up by the Republican National Committee, which repurposed Obama’s statement about his policies being on the ballot to hit Clinton.
“Hillary’s policies were on the ballot,” an RNC research memo distributed to reporters Wednesday morning declares. “It isn’t just Obama who should be concerned — Hillary Clinton is running for ‘Obama’s Third Term,’” the memo adds, making particular note of Clinton’s role as a foreign policy leader in Obama’s administration.






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