In a social media back-and-forth, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York replied to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas that “anyone with basic decency” would respect the officer’s Muslim faith.
As New Yorkers mourned the victims of a mass shooting last week in a midtown Manhattan office building, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, inserted himself into the discourse.
His comments concerned a photo taken Thursday of Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, sitting on a folding chair inside a mosque, next to Mayor Eric Adams. To her left, men in kurtas and police uniforms kneel on a carpeted floor. Hochul wears a dark pantsuit, a somber expression and, on her head, a black scarf looped over her hair.
After an anonymous social media user posted the photo and asked — appending an expletive — why the governor was “wearing a hijab,” Cruz shared the post Friday and added,
