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Ted Cruz: “In 2024, 7,369 murders were recorded.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 25:28

If you look at January through October of 2025 and you compare it to the same time period in 2024, in 2025, approximately 5,912 murders were recorded in the U.S. in that same time period In 2024, 7,369 murders were recorded. In other words, there are about 1400 people, 1,400 people alive who were not murdered because of common sense law and order policies, because of not releasing murderers onto the street, because of deporting murderers and violent gang members. (25:28–25:34)

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