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Ted Cruz: “If we have a President Bernie Sanders or President Elizabeth…”

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Remembering Lindsey Graham: Who he was as a Person & Why he left such an Extraordinary Legacy

Published | Video Starts at 36:42

And my concern was, look, if you create the precedent for doing this, the next Democrat president, the next. If we have a President Bernie Sanders or President Elizabeth Warren, they're going to declare an emergency on climate change, they're going to declare an emergency on gun violence and use it to justify all sorts of bad policies. So I had a second theory that would have done 100% of the upside without the downside of the bad pressing. And I pitched it to Lindsey, and Lindsey was like, yeah, that makes sense. (36:42–36:53)

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Asserts that future Democratic presidents might use emergency declarations for climate change or gun violence policies.

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