Ted Cruz: “If nothing changes, we will likely vote, have the final vote…”

“When will the American people know what day will you guys make this decision on either trying to vote for that or just having a straight up vote that you know you're going to come up short on? Yeah. If nothing changes, we will likely vote, have the final vote on Thursday of this week and we will end up probably with 50, 51, 52 votes for the Save America act, but we'll need 60. And so the vote will fail and nothing changes. That's where we're headed. And then do you expect the president to weigh in heavy on the strategy here?” (32:26–32:39)

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