Ted Cruz: “A guy who murdered a baby, who strangled his eleven month…”

“You know, unfortunately, the Democrat party has gone off the rails. This decision by this federal judge who was a Bill Clinton nominee is insane. The idea that a murderer, A guy who murdered a baby, who strangled his eleven month old stepdaughter, now the taxpayers of Indiana are going to have to pay for him. He's decided that he's a girl, and so they have to pay for a surgery to change his body. And you know what the next step is? He's going to demand.” (02:03–02:12)

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