Story highlights "There will be accountability for Benghazi," Cruz said if he is elected

Cruz said American voters will administer a 'spanking' to Hillary Clinton if he is elected president

Washington (CNN) Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cited Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi terrorist attack Friday when he said voters "have a way of administering a spanking," similar to how he spanks his 5-year-old daughter.

"Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don't know to this day," Cruz told supporters at a coffee shop in Charles City, Iowa. "We do know Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, 'Well gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack,' while we were out telling the American people it wasn't. You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking."

Cruz continued: "Well, in America, the voters have a way of administering a spanking."

The Texas senator then pledged that as president he would have "accountability" for the 2012 attack.

Cruz was responding to a woman accusing Washington politicians of "skirting around Benghazi."

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