Overview
- Speaking Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, Rep. Dan Crenshaw endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz’s criticism of Tucker Carlson for giving airtime to far-right activist Nick Fuentes.
- Crenshaw said “moral clarity” should guide responses to antisemitism and argued that disassociating from Fuentes is not cancel culture.
- He faulted Carlson for elevating a figure he said had “fallen off the radar” and recounted past attempts by Fuentes’ followers to disrupt his events with antisemitic questions.
- Citing a surge in antisemitism, Cruz has called it a poison and an existential crisis for the party and the country.
- Crenshaw also said the House passed a short-term “clean” continuing resolution and blamed Senate Democrats for the shutdown, and he backed current U.S. deterrence against Venezuela as lawful under Article II, including targeting drug boats.