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Ted Cruz: “Antifa targeted [the Turning Point USA rally at UC…”

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Published November 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 32:35

So it's not like either of these speakers were particularly controversial in any normal or sane place. But UC Berkeley is not necessarily a normal or sane place. And Antifa targeted [the Turning Point USA rally at UC Berkeley], targeted the people coming into the rally. coming in to see, to listen to the speakers and they were violent. Let me read how Fox covered it. (32:35–32:41)

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“Virtually every Democrat still voted against reopening the government. So in the Senate, the vote was 60 to 40.”
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“They claimed every day of this 43 day shutdown that they had to have major concessions on Obamacare.”
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