Ted Cruz: “It was the Democrats who created the kkk.”

“And by the way, I will say, look, Schumer, using the rhetoric about Jim Crow, there is an irony in that. It was his party. It was the Democrats who enacted the Jim Crow laws. It was the Democrats who created the kkk. It was his party, the Democrats, that kept the system of segregation in for decades. He uses this rhetoric because the Democrats do not care that Democrats overwhelmingly supported voters.” (07:19–07:23)

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