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"I can tell you with our girls, I changed a lot of diapers. Heidi changed a lot of diapers," Ted Cruz said. | AP Photo Cruz hits Trump on changing diapers: 'It's a parent's job'

When it comes to at least one duty of early childcare, Ted Cruz says he's up to the task and Donald Trump is not.

At the start of a 13-minute interview on supporter Glenn Beck's radio show Tuesday, Cruz was asked: “Changing a baby’s diapers — is that a wife’s job?”

“It’s a parent’s job," the Texas senator said. "I can tell you with our girls, I changed a lot of diapers. Heidi changed a lot of diapers. When a diaper needs changing, whoever’s closest jumps on the grenade, so to speak.”

The question is a direct reference to recently surfaced comments that Trump made in 2005, when he remarked, "No, I don't do that," when asked if he changed the diapers for his children. At the time, Melania was pregnant with their son Barron.

“There’s a lot of women out there that demand that the husband act like the wife and you know there’s a lot of husbands that listen to that,” Trump said, according to the audio surfaced by BuzzFeed. “So you know, they go for it.”