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Ted Cruz: “D.C. was proposing, the D.C. school district was proposing…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz Discuss US Foreign Policy, Iran, and Israel

Published | Video Starts at 10:58

So, for example, let's take an issue you and I care a lot about, the COVID lockdowns I had a couple of years ago, in the middle of them, D.C. was proposing, the D.C. school district was proposing throwing out of school any child that was not vaccinated. And at the time, if I remember correctly, it was something like 40% of the African American students in D.C. were not vaccinated. (10:58–25:40)

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Asserts that D.C. proposed expelling unvaccinated children from school.

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