“Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” Telnaes tweeted earlier Tuesday. The cartoon was drawn ostensibly in response to an ad Cruz released called “Ted Cruz’s Christmas classics” that featured him reading politically related Christmas stories to his daughters. The Texas senator was responding to a cartoon from Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes captioned as, “Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props.” The cartoon portrays Cruz as an organ grinder dressed in a Santa outfit and cowboy boots while two Christmas-clad monkeys - his 7 and 4-year-old daughters - dance in front of him. Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz tweeted. The cartoon was removed after the Texas senator laid into the Washington Post earlier Tuesday for making “fun of my girls” on Twitter. Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says a Washington Post cartoon depicting his 5- and 7-year-old daughters as monkeys is inappropriate and that children of candidates should. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree,” Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt said in a note in place of the cartoon.
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I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. 'There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits,' Telnaes said in introducing the cartoon. “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. He was bashing Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who depicted Cruz's daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4 as monkeys leashed to their father's organ-grinder in a cartoon published earlier Tuesday. Cruz and his wife have been married for 19-years. In 2017, Cruz brought his daughters to meet President Donald Trump.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as an organ grinder and his young daughters (not shown above) as monkeys. Born in 2008, Caroline is 12-years-old, and younger sister Catherine is 10-years-old. The Washington Post pulled a cartoon Tuesday night that depicted Sen. The Washington Post on Tuesday night removed a cartoon that portrayed Ted Cruz’s daughters as monkeys. Cruz and Heidi have two daughters, Caroline and Catherine Cruz.