Ted Cruz badgers HRC president about gender during Senate hearing on LGBTQ+ rights

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) subverted his Harvard debate skills Wednesday to badger the new president of the Human Rights Campaign at a Senate hearing focused on LGBTQ+ rights.

Maybe he was jealous of her title.

The harassment happened at the Senate’s “Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans” hearing and was directed at newly appointed HRC president Kelley Robinson, among other LGBTQ+ advocates and individuals.

The Republican Senate minority fielded some hostile witnesses, as well, who earned Cruz’s saccharine admiration.

It was Robinson, however, that the presidential also-ran lavished the most attention on, with a repeated refrain that…

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