During a speech to his conservative supporters in Barrington, New Hampshire this weekend, Senator Ted Cruz bashed the "Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind," saying the "world is on fire," to the horror of a three-year-old sitting in the front row.

"The world is on fire?!" Julie Trant shouts about 40 seconds into the clip embedded above. "YES! Your world is on fire," Cruz says in an arguably ineffective method of consoling a small child. "But you know what? Your mommy's here, and everyone's here to make sure the world you grow up in is even better."

Hm.

The first part of Cruz's speech:


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