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Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz is a United States Senator from Texas, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz gained national prominence during his 2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He is known for his conservative positions on issues such as healthcare, immigration, and tax reform. Cruz has been a vocal advocate for limited government and has often positioned himself as a defender of constitutional rights.

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Aug 2, 2022

There are a large percentage of Americans who still have deep doubts about the veracity of the election, and I think it would behoove both parties to have a serious, substantive examination on the merits of the facts of those claims.

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Aug 2, 2022

I continue to believe it would have been a better approach for Congress in the 2020 election to have followed the precedent from 1876 and to have appointed an Election Commission.

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Jul 30, 2022

The Democrats played a budgetary trick, which is they took $400 billion in discretionary spending, and they shifted it to mandatory. The reason they did that is they want to spend $400 billion more discretionary funds on completely…

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Jul 25, 2022

I find it a little bit amazing that this discrimination is being reported to be ongoing in the Administration and you are professing to be unaware of it.

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Jul 25, 2022

What would you say you do around here? What is your job if not to stop discrimination?

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Jul 25, 2022

Certain candidates could not be hired because they have a disability--they are white men. They are straight white men. They are not of the 'right religion.'

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Jul 25, 2022

Your mandate is to promote a concept on the left called equity, which, I think, is nothing more than brazen discrimination.

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Jul 25, 2022

A year after your appointment in April 2022, the State Department released its 'equity action plan' to integrate these so-called equity principles into 'all aspects of State Department foreign affairs.'

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Jul 25, 2022

The Biden administration, I believe, is staffed by radicals. The State Department has consistently alienated our friends and appeased our enemies.

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Jul 25, 2022

I talked to a student recently at one of our woke college campuses who said she`s required every class to introduce herself and to give her pronouns. Well, I`m Ted Cruz and my pronoun is kiss my ass.

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Jul 20, 2022

There’s no doubt that a great many Americans support changing marriage laws to have them apply to same-sex marriage. And we were seeing the democratic process operate.

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Jul 18, 2022

Every year in Congress I have introduced legislation called the Super PAC Elimination Act.

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Jul 18, 2022

There was a time when Democrats supported free speech. There was a time when Members across the aisle actually believed in the First Amendment. Unfortunately, that time has long since passed.

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Jul 18, 2022

This DISCLOSE Act is designed to target and harass speech that the left does not like. It is blazingly unconstitutional.

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Jul 18, 2022

It literally would have said any expenditure of money for political speech.

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Jul 18, 2022

Ultimately, that amendment came to a vote on the Senate floor and every single Senate Democrat voted to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment.

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Jul 17, 2022

Obergefell like Roe versus Wade ignored two centuries of our nation`s history. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states. I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided. It was the court overreaching.

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Jul 15, 2022

Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation`s history. In Obergefell, the court said now we know better than you guys do, and now every state must, must sanction and permit gay marriage. I think that decision was…

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Jun 22, 2022

I am deeply committed to honoring, protecting, and advancing the cause of democracy, human rights, and economic prosperity here and abroad.

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Jun 7, 2022

Senator Ted Cruz said he had been in Committee hearings all day and had not seen them.

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Jun 2, 2022

We know from past experience that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe, is armed law enforcement on the campus.

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Jun 1, 2022

It's never been about guns.

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Jun 1, 2022

What stops armed bad guys is armed, good guys.

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Jun 1, 2022

If that had happened, if those federal grants had gone to this school, when that psychopath arrived, the armed police officers could have taken him out and we`d have 19 children and two teachers still alive.

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