(Video still via Daily Mail)

Ted Cruz's take on the issue of which bathroom a trans person should use is characteristically unenlightened:

The Texas senator told the crowd: “I want to make this real, real simple for all the folks in the media who find this conversation very confusing. So let me make things real simple, even if Donald Trump dresses up as Hillary Clinton, he shouldn't be using the girl's restroom.”

He then apologized to the audience—who erupted into peels of laughter—for giving them a mental image of  “Donald in a bright blue pantsuit.”

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