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Ted Cruz: “It has now been more than a decade that we have had over…”

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Published | Video Starts at 08:27

I mean, it is not a complicated migration pattern that people are fleeing bright blue states with high taxes and high regulations, and they are coming to red states with low taxes and low regulations and safety. So we've had. It has now been more than a decade that we have had over 1000 people a day moving to Texas. So when I was first elected 13 years ago, we had 26 million Texans. Today, we have over 31 million Texans. So we've added 5 million Texans in 13 years. (08:27–08:34)

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