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◼ Seth Meyers Tries to Shame Ted Cruz for Telling 3-year-old Girl 'Whole World Is on Fire' - Newsbusters

“I just talked to her mom about half an hour ago,” the Republican senator continued. “She went on a Boston talk radio program this morning because she was so upset at all these stories.” The mother said that her daughter then “looked at him as a hero” and she said: “My daughter was incredibly happy, and in fact turned to me, and I said: 'Look, Ted is going to put out the fire.' And she said: 'He's a fireman?'”

Regarding the negative media coverage of the encounter, the mother added: “She was actually calling him Uncle Cruz for the rest of the day.”

As a result, “he's like Marshall,” the dalmatian fire chief on the children's Paw Patrol television series, Cruz quoted the mother as saying.

Meyers then took advantage of the opportunity to repeat his joke: “Again, they're so bad with metaphors.”

But “that's great,” the host continued. “I think in the end, that girl's problem isn't anything more than her mother doesn't know what 3-year-olds like to do on a Saturday. 'Let's go watch a senator talk!' I hope she got ice cream on the way there and the way home.”

“Let me point out,”' Cruz responded: “There is only one member of the U.S. Senate who's known for Green Eggs and Ham,” the Dr. Seuss book he read to his children while filibustering against funding for ObamaCare in September of 2013.

“That's true,” Meyers replied. “Your demo is trending very young.”

“I poll very well in the 3 to 6 demographic,” the senator responded....