. >> but just a few days later, a washington post political cartoonist accused cruz of using his 5 and 7-year-old daughters as political props. and went so far as to portray the presidential candidate in a santa outfit with an organ grinder and little caroline and kathryn cruz as mondaykikeymonk. but the cartoonist is not apologizing. taking to twitter, arguing the little girls are fair game, because cruz put his children in the ad, something many politicians on both sides of the aisle do. the paper's editorial page editor had a different take, saying, quote, it's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of t i failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. i understand why ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but i do not agree. meanwhile, senator cruz hit back

>> i think what this shows and this comes from a leftist political cartoonist at the leftist "the washington post," this exposes at least for me the inherent racism of some on the left. you have got vicious hypocrisy coming out of the left. you also have their incull incull -- indulgence in identity politics which is what this is. you can imagine if a conservative or political cartoonist put the shoe on the other foot and portrayed a liberal's children in this way? holly -- holy hell would have broken loose. if they do it to conservatives that's fine. they took a latino man's children, eric, turned them into monkeys and try defend that and say that's okay. they do that and try to brand donald trump as a racist and then they are all scratching heir heads wondering why so many of the american people are supporting those two. >> the editor of the "the washington post" said well, it's against their policy to bring children into their editorials, however, he