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Ted Cruz: “If you elect me, I will secure the border. You've been the…”

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

IT'S A BIG DAMN DEAL! | Verdict Ep. 206

Published August 26, 2024 | Video Starts at 18:38

Well, okay, you're in office now. What the hell are you doing today? Yeah, you know, if you were in. Office was almost four years ago. If you elect me, I will secure the border. You've been the border czar for four years. What the hell have you been doing for four years? And if you intend to do it, why don't you do it now? (18:38–18:44)

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Asserts that Kamala Harris has been responsible for border security for four years.

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“Bobby Kennedy [Jr.] endorsing the Republican candidate for president is massive.”
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“Kamala Harris has lost 300,000 children.”
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“Democrats...know they are corrupt. They know this is about power.”
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“It's difficult to name a Democrat who defends free speech.”
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“Today in the Senate, I served with 51 Democrat senators. There's not one, not a single one who I've ever heard speak up against big tech…”
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“When Mark Zuckerberg testifies in front of the Senate, zero democrats ask a question about censorship.”
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“When Jack Dorsey, when he was running Twitter, none of the Democrats [asked about censorship].”
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“We now know the [Hunter Biden laptop] story was true and that didn't matter.”
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“When Donald Trump was president, we had zero wars.”
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“With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we have two simultaneous wars. The biggest war in Europe since World War two and the worst war in the…”
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“The FDA, for example, to get a new drug approved, it typically cost billions of dollars.”
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“I was an original cosponsor of right to try legislation which Donald Trump signed.”
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“I also am the author of a bill called the Results act, which says that if another major developed country has approved a pharmaceutical or a…”
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“Democrats don't believe in democracy. In fact, they despise democracy.”
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“Kamala Harris, who is now their nominee. There is literally not one human being on planet earth who in 2024 voted for Kamala Harris to be…”
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“Kamala Harris is the sitting vice president.”
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“The corporate media no longer pretends to be journalists. They no longer have an aspiration to report the truth.”
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“The entire DNC convention had no substance.”
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“Democrats are all abortion all the time, no limits whatsoever.”
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“Joe Biden may not know that, but he is [the president].”
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“The media and the DNC, they are one in the same.”
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“For much of the past years, [Kennedy's numbers] were in the teens.”
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“The corporate media did not want [Kennedy] on because it hurt Joe Biden.”
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“The media doesn't believe in the First Amendment.”
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“There's nobody in the media who's upset about censorship.”
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“Their single biggest policy vulnerability is the open borders that Kamala Harris...has been in charge of for four years.”
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“They see eleven and a half million illegal immigrants and they think these are Democrat voters.”
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“Staying in power is what matters. Even if people have to die...to stay in power.”
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“JFK supported [Nixon] in Nixon's Senate race when he was running for the Senate in California in 1950.”
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“JFK showed up, number one with $1,000 cash. And so JFK is this young congressman.”
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“That's illegal today, actually, bagman like.”
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“You can't now except that much money in cash. It has to be a check or it has to be a credit card or it has to be documentation.”
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“$1,000 in 1950 today is $13,051.45.”
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“13 grand that JFK delivered to support Nixon in his Senate race in 1950.”
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“Every one of Bernie's positions is what Kamala Harris supports.”
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“CNN cut [Bobby Kennedy's] speech off, by the way. MSNBC aired the speech with no audio.”
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“RFK junior's current share of the vote right now is 5% [in Arizona].”
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“In Arizona, it's 53% supports Trump, 28% supports Harris.”
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“Georgia Kennedy has 3% and the Delta is 47% for Trump, 34% for Harris.”
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“Michigan, Kennedy has 4% of the vote. The Delta there is 43% for Trump, 41% for Harris.”
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“North Carolina, Kennedy has 3%. But the breakdown there, 58% for Trump, 22% for Harris.”
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“Nevada. Kennedy has 4%. The delta between the two. Trump, 66%. Harris, 16%.”
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“Pennsylvania. Kennedy has 4% of the vote. Trump has 49%. Harris has 35.”
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“Wisconsin. Kennedy has 4% of the vote. Trump has 55% of that share. Harris has 25% of that share.”
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“This endorsement could very possibly change the outcome of the election.”
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“Kamala Harris was winning in all the swing states but Georgia.”
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“Getting on the presidential ballot as an independent candidate is hard.”
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“There are over a million signatures [for Kennedy's ballot access].”
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“The corrupt corporate media desperately wants you not even to know about [Kennedy's ballot access] and not to care.”
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