"Let's be clear," Cruz said. "The anger and rage that we've been seeing on the far left is deliberately provoked and stoked by Democratic politicians. When Maxine Waters and Corey Booker tell the mob to go harass, scream, yell, confront people -- that is not productive. When Hillary Clinton, sadly, says that we can be civil after the Democrats have won the election, that's not productive either." blockquote>In Round Rock, O'Rourke spoke to 350 supporters Wednesday afternoon under umbrellas and called the mail bombs "absolutely unacceptable." He sidestepped a question about whether rhetoric of the sort used by Trump and Cruz contributes to a volatile political atmosphere but said, "There's just no room for violence in our politics." Nor would he directly comment on Cruz's joke about sending him to jail, saying only: "Yeah."In the crowd, Tim Mixon, 50, vice president of marketing at a software company, said civility "starts at the top. Look at the president's words." And he recalled Cruz calling O'Rourke a socialist in their first debate -- in response to a question asking the candidates to say something nice about each other. "Ted Cruz couldn't do that. Right? Without getting in a dig," Mixon said. "Tomorrow, he'll be right back at it. We need civility in politics. We need to have a conversation without attacks. And that's what O'Rourke stands for."
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