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Ted Cruz: “If your party becomes a socialist and communist party, it…”

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

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Happy Birthday America: Celebrating What is Extraordinary about our Great Nation

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… this country if we release all the murderers, all the rapists, all the child molesters for the Democrat Party? I think you're facing an existential challenge in your party. And If your party becomes a socialist and communist party, it will hurt America. By the way, I want to say two other things and then I want you to comment on it. Number one, there's some Republicans who are sort of quietly celebrating saying okay, Democrats have gone crazy. (32:30–32:36)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party becoming socialist and communist would be detrimental to America.

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