The #NotMyAbuela trend included a number of reactions. Shortly after, #NotMyAbuela began trending on Twitter and users called the move Hispandering from Clinton's team.

And unsurprisingly, people on Twitter aren't too happy about it, The Huffington Post reported. After her daughter Chelsea Clinton said shed be having another baby, Clintons campaign team published a list called 7 ways Hillary Clinton Is Just Like Your Abuela, which included points that were written in a mix of Spanish and English, serving as a way for her campaign team to reach out to Latino voters, The Huffington Post reported. In fact, earlier this week, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton used her daughters recent pregnancy as a way to earn some political points. However, other candidates have drawn fire in recent weeks for including their children publicly in their campaigns. Normally, Hiatt said, The Post wouldnt publish anything about or against a candidates children. 'But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her fathers dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.' But The Washington Post editor Fred Hiatt said he failed to look at this cartoon before it was published and disagreed with Telanes view on the cartoon. 'There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politicians children are off-limits,' Telanes said while introducing the cartoon, Newsmax reported. Telanes drew the cartoon as a response to Cruzs own parody political advertisement in which his daughters, Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5, read a version of The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails, which many considered to be a reference to Hillary Clinton and her email scandal, Newsmax reported. But leave our kids alone.' Cruz sent out an email appeal to his supporters asking them to help raise $1 million as a response to the cartoon, saying that his daughters were NOT FAIR GAME! as the cartoonist, Ann Telanes, said they were in the cartoonists introduction. And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that's what they're gonna do. 'It used to be for a long time, the rules across the board, that kids are off-limits. 'Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that'll do it,' Cruz said about the cartoon, which The Post has taken down. Cruz condemned The Washington Post for showing his daughters as monkeys in this way since he believes they should be off-limits, NBC News reported. Well, Cruz specifically isnt happy with The Posts editorial staff, who published an editorial cartoon that showed Cruz dressed in a Santa Claus outfit as an organ grinder with a pair of monkeys ahead of him whom the cartoon identifies as his children. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) isnt happy with The Washington Post. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting.Republican presidential hopeful Sen. “But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father’s dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.” “I’ve kept to that rule, except when the children are adults themselves or choose to indulge in grown-up activities (as the Bush twins did during the George W Bush presidency),” Telnaes wrote. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well.

Her argument centers around the belief that Cruz–the senator and candidate–includes his daughters on the campaign trail and in some videos from his campaign. There are plenty of adults in the political world who act childish, so there is no need for an editorial cartoonist to target actual children.”Īt that point, she tried explaining why she was breaking the rules. “People don’t get to choose their family members so obviously it’s unfair to ridicule kids for their parent’s behavior while in office or on the campaign trail- besides, they’re children. “There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits,” Telnaes admits. Telnaes–who won the Pulitzer Prize drawing cartoons mocking Republicans during the 2000 presidential election recount controversy–wrote a lengthy diatribe attempting to explain why she abandoned journalistic norms to attack Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5. Cruz’s wife and the girls’ mother, Heidi, is not in the cartoon. Meanwhile, Cruz himself is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus suit holding a crank music box to which the girls’ leashes are attached. The Post cartoonist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ann Telnaes, drew up a Christmas-themed cartoon where the senator’s 5 and 7 year-old daughters are portrayed as monkeys on a leash. “Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz added. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.

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