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Ted Cruz: “Democrats, politically, their ideology, they think it's…”

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

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If they could do so on Monday, they could do so on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The reason they don't, the reason the crime persists, the reason your family is threatened, is because the Democrats, politically, their ideology, they think it's better to side with the criminals than it is with you. And that. I don't get that. But that's where we are. And I do think it's part of the reason we see today's Democrat Party getting more and more extreme and appealing to a smaller and smaller sliver of our society. (28:28–28:34)

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Asserts that Democrats prefer siding with criminals over citizens.

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