<div dir="ltr"><div>Audio and video that was posted to Twitter at URL below:</div><div><br></div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><div class="gmail-CallToAction-chevron" style="margin-left:auto;display:inline;font-family:Helvetica,Roboto,"Segoe UI",Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.statesman.com/news/20190729/ted-cruz-heckled-by-lively-crowd-at-lax">https://www.statesman.com/news/20190729/ted-cruz-heckled-by-lively-crowd-at-lax</a> </div></div><div><div class="gmail-CallToAction-chevron" style="margin-left:auto;display:inline;font-family:Helvetica,Roboto,"Segoe UI",Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail-CallToAction-chevron" style="margin-left:auto;display:inline;font-family:Helvetica,Roboto,"Segoe UI",Calibri,sans-serif">by Matt Zdun <br></div></div><div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">U.S. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was captured on video being heckled and booed at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1em 0px;color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">Dozens of travelers crowded the senator in a packed terminal and started hurling indiscernible insults at him before a consistent “Free the children” chant arose from the crowd — an apparent reference to the Trump administration’s policy of detaining young asylum seekers at the southern border.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1em 0px;color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">In the 45-second video, posted on Twitter, Cruz, dressed casually in khaki shorts and a colorful shirt, appears to smile as the lively crowd becomes more animated, before taking a photograph with a woman.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1em 0px;color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">The video has been viewed more than 400,000 times.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:1em 0px;color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:"Crimson Text",Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:17.5px">It’s not the first time the Cruz has been criticized in an airport. Last year, he was <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/10/17/sen-ted-cruz-thanks-women-heckling-him-airport-kavanaugh/1673518002/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(105,128,150);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Roboto Condensed","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18.662px;font-weight:bold;display:inline;font-kerning:normal;margin-bottom:10px;background-size:5px 1em">confronted by two women</a> at an airport over his vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. He was also heckled out of a Washington restaurant last year for the same reason.</p></div></div></div>