Whether that's earlier this year, when we're trying to put $20 billion into border security and Texans should know this, no state would have benefited more than Texas from that border deal. And Ted Cruz took down [a bipartisan effort to secure the border] because he thought it'd be better for him in the election. if he still had the problem to run on than trying to solve it. As someone whose family's from Brownsville, Texas, the very tip of Texas here, listen, I know that our inaction leads to those communities having to bear the brunt. (06:12–06:21)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz opposed a bipartisan border security effort for electoral advantage.
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