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Ted Cruz: “If the system continues on the path it's on, there are only…”

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But. But everyone else is losing. So, for example, let's take. You're in my home state of Texas. If the system continues on the path it's on, there are only two schools that I am certain would survive [in Texas]: University of Texas and Texas A and M. They have a big enough donor base that no matter what happens, those two survive. But if we're sitting here three, five years from now, and the other schools, University of Houston, Baylor, tcu, smu, Texas Tech, Rice. (15:53–15:59)

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Asserts that only two Texas schools would survive financially if the current system persists.

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