Republican presidential candidate says some people will be surprised who really thinks abortion is a losing campaign issue: Democrats. Cruz recently pointed out how abortion was a horrendous political issue for Democrats in Texas — the second largest state in the country — because the Democrats’ position of supporting late-term abortions turned off a large portion of Hispanics voters who are pro-life.

As the liberal Texas Tribune reports:

Asked during a question-and-answer session with voters about how Republicans could run effectively on social issues in states beyond Iowa, home to the first nominating contest, Cruz insisted the GOP has nothing to be ashamed of. On abortion, for example, he argued Democrats, including presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, are out of sync with the overwhelming majority of voters. “You know who doesn’t think abortion is a winning issue for Democrats? Democrats,” Cruz said. “Name the last presidential election in which Democrats made front and center their unmitigated enthusiastic support for abortion on demand.” As exhibit A, Cruz cited the Democratic primary in the Texas governor’s race two years back. Former state Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth ultimately won the nomination but lost more than 20 counties to a virtually unknown Democrat named Ray Madrigal who had nowhere near the money or popularity she had. Speaking to Iowans on Thursday, Cruz noted how many of the counties were in the Rio Grande Valley. The region, he said, “is overwhelmingly Democratic, it is overwhelming Hispanic, it is significantly low-income.” “What that means is that thousands upon thousands of Hispanic Democrats came into the polls – by definition, they knew nothing about her opponent. He had no money, not a single radio ad or TV ad, nothing,” Cruz said. “But these Democrats voting in the Democratic primary presumably looked at the ballot and said, ‘Davis, Davis — that’s the late-term abortion person. No, I’m not for that!’” “She gave a filibuster. I know a little thing about giving a filibuster,” Cruz said. “Unlike Wendy Davis, I didn’t wear pink tennis shoes while I was doing it. And Wendy Davis, unlike me, was lionized by the press. The press said, ‘Oh, what a glorious hero. Her standing in favor of late-term abortions. Yay, yay, yay. We love it.'” SIGN THE NEW PLEDGE: I Pledge to Vote for a Pro-Life Candidate for President

As LifeNews writer Luis Zaffirini, a Texan himself, notes, Cruz is right that abortion cost Davis large numbers of Hispanics voters: