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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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Feb 17, 2021

Yesterday, my daughters asked if they could take a trip with some friends, and Heidi and I agreed. So, I flew down with them last night.

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Feb 15, 2021

There are not 67 votes to convict. There are 55 votes to convict, plus-minus two.

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Feb 11, 2021

In any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate is responsible for the culture of the campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, you…

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Feb 10, 2021

I think the end result of this impeachment trial is crystal clear to everybody, which is that Donald Trump will be acquitted. Perhaps one reason why Democrats state not only appearing intent on trying to impeach the president's bad acts…

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Feb 9, 2021

A direct link from Trump to the pro-Trump riot was -- quote -- 'strikingly absent.'

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Feb 9, 2021

This is political theater because rather than address the real problems, the real challenges we have in this country, rather than focus on getting kids back in school and getting tens of millions of Americans back to work, the Democrats…

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Feb 4, 2021

The first week in office, what is Joe Biden done? He signed an executive order ending the Keystone pipeline, destroying 11,000 jobs, 8,000 union jobs with a stroke of a pen. The Democratic elites have decided that blue-collar workers, that…

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Jan 29, 2021

You lied about the election. The capitol was attacked. Senator Cruz, resign.

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Jan 27, 2021

The William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 became public law on January 1, 2021, and included reforms to the U.S. Agency for Global Media outlined in section 1299Q. The FY21 consolidated…

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Jan 27, 2021

I think it is retribution, I think it is vindictive and I think it`s a waste of time. And so to coin a phrase, I think it`s time to move on.

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Jan 26, 2021

I believed that the Obama-Biden administration's approach was deeply misguided, and I urged the Trump administration to reverse it.

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Jan 26, 2021

I for a long time have believed that the single greatest geopolitical threat facing the United States is China

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Jan 26, 2021

And the reason is because of disingenuous pablum from people like Ted Cruz, who`s a coward who still has this sort of ridiculous fantasy that one day he`s going to catch all the magic rings of the MAGA universe and put them on his fingers…

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Jan 26, 2021

This is driven really by the partisan rage and the partisan anger the Democrats feel they hate Donald J. Trump, and they’re engaging in an act that I think is petty, I think it is retribution.

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Jan 26, 2021

I think it`s a waste of time. And so, to coin a phrase, I think it`s time to move on.

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Jan 19, 2021

This man is a pathological liar.

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Jan 18, 2021

I pressed the Trump administration to change that policy to reverse the ban, and they did so.

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Jan 18, 2021

Despite all of this, the Biden administration is rushing to reenter the Iran deal.

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Jan 18, 2021

One of the most troubling aspects of the catastrophic Obama Iran nuclear deal were the enormous holes in verifying Iranian compliance.

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Jan 18, 2021

This committee passed that overwhelmingly. The Senate passed it overwhelmingly in a bipartisan manner.

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Jan 18, 2021

I worry that no amount of financial accountability can reform these deeply problematic organizations as long as we allow them to be led by countries that are antithetical to their purpose.

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Jan 18, 2021

We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past, such as the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011.

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Jan 18, 2021

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing a genocide against the Uyghurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that is ongoing.

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Jan 18, 2021

The Taliban have not upheld their commitments during the peace negotiations process.

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Jan 18, 2021

I support the administration's decision to complete a full military withdrawal by September 11.

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