Ted Cruz scares 3-year-old girl: 'Your world is on fire'

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a tea party favorite and possible presidential candidate in 2016, speaks to Baily Ealy during a Strafford County Republican Committee Chili and Chat on Sunday, March 15, 2015, in Barrington, N.H. less U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a tea party favorite and possible presidential candidate in 2016, speaks to Baily Ealy during a Strafford County Republican Committee Chili and Chat on Sunday, March 15, 2015, in ... more Photo: Jim Cole, AP Photo/Jim Cole Photo: Jim Cole, AP Photo/Jim Cole Image 1 of / 29 Caption Close Ted Cruz scares 3-year-old girl: 'Your world is on fire' 1 / 29 Back to Gallery

A three-year-old New Hampshire girl didn't take kindly to the U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's fiery rhetoric during a stop in the key presidential primary state on Saturday.

Cruz bashed President Barack Obama's policies before a crowd in Barrington, New Hampshire, declaring that the country has almost reached a "point of no return," according to the Concord Monitor.

"The Obama economy is a disaster, Obamacare is a trainwreck, and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind – the whole world is on fire," the freshman senator said.

3-year-old Julia Trant, sitting on her mother's lap in the front row, seemingly disliked the notion of her planet engulfed in flames.

"The world is on fire?" Trant asked the senator mid-speech.

Cruz responded: "The world is on fire. Yes! Your world is on fire. But you know what? Your mommy's here and everyone's here to make sure the world you grow up in is better."

A video posted to YouTube by Raw Story shows the encounter.

Cruz then slammed "out-of control regulators" and advocated repealing "every word of Obamacare" and abolishing the IRS.

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