During an interview with
conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz
said most violent criminals are Democrats.
It came after Hewitt brought up the shooting at a Planned
Parenthood clinic that left three dead and nine injured in Colorado Springs,
Colo., over Thanksgiving weekend. Hewitt told Cruz that he’d been doing
anti-abortion events for 25 years and had never met "a single pro-life
activist who is in favor of violence of any sort."
Cruz agreed. "And I would note that this whole
episode has really displayed the ugly underbelly of the media," Cruz said.
"You know, every time you have some sort of violent crime or mass killing,
you can almost see the media salivating, hoping, hoping desperately that the
murderer happens to be a Republican, so they can use it to try to paint their
political enemies. Now listen, here’s the simple and undeniable fact. The
overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats. The media doesn’t
report that."
We received dozens of emails from readers asking us to
check the claim, so we took a closer look.
We queried the Cruz campaign, but
didn’t hear back. CNN reported that Cruz’s campaign, when asked, cited research
by two academics, Marc Meredith, of the University of Pennsylvania, and
Michael Morse, then of Stanford University. They published a paper in
the January 2014 edition of the Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science titled, "Do Voting Rights
Notification Laws Increase Ex-Felon Turnout?"
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