Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's "thought experiment" of naming "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson as his future U.N. ambassador had a South Carolina crowd cheering with approval on Friday.
The Republican hopeful joked with a Myrtle Beach audience that A&E's reality-series personality would be the perfect foil to anti-American nations at the world organization.
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"Just for a thought experiment, imagine for a second Phil Robertson, ambassador to the United Nations. How much would you pay to see the Russian ambassador's face when Phil says, 'What is wrong with you people?'" said Cruz, CNN reported.
Last month Robertson endorsed Cruz in a humorous campaign ad featuring the two men in hunting gear.
"My qualifications for president of the United States are rather narrow," Robertson said. "Is he or she godly? Does he or she love us? Can he or she do the job? And finally: Will they kill a duck and put 'em on a pot and make 'em a good duck gumbo?"
Robertson said Cruz is "godly, he loves us, he's the man for the job – and he will go duck hunting."
The senator returned the compliment on Friday, saying Robertson "terrifies the mainstream media."
"He says the things you're not supposed to say. He actually remembers who we are as Americans and just speaks it with a joy, not with an anger, not with a hatred, with a joy in who we are," said Cruz.
Cruz will find out on Saturday if South Carolina primary voters agree with the "Duck Dynasty" patriarch.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Friday said 23 percent of ballots cast are likely to go to Cruz compared with 28 percent for rival Donald Trump.
The survey's margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points for Republican candidates.
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