Cruz promises to defend gun rights in NH campaign swing

HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — Ted Cruz on Tuesday returned to New Hampshire for the first time in months, promising conservative voters he'll protect their gun rights and several times invoking the state's "Live Free or Die" motto. "It's not 'live coddled by a bunch of nanny-state liberals who want to control every aspect of your life, or die,'" he said to laughs and cheers outside a gun range. "It's not 'trust Hillary Clinton

HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — Ted Cruz on Tuesday returned to New Hampshire for the first time in months, promising conservative voters he'll protect their gun rights and several times invoking the state's "Live Free or Die" motto. "It's not 'live coddled by a bunch of nanny-state liberals who want to control every aspect of your life, or die,'" he said to laughs and cheers outside a gun range. "It's not 'trust Hillary Clinton and her village to raise your kids and strip them of all their liberties or di…