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Ted Cruz: “I've literally spent 13 years [defending persecuted…”

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Published November 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 25:40

But that's truly a bizarre claim, what he says there, which is that I have no interest in defending persecuted Christians. I've literally spent 13 years [defending persecuted Christians]. doing that. You know, I might ask Tucker, does he have any idea who Miriam Ibrahim is? And I suspect he doesn't. (25:40–25:43)

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“Virtually all of the political contributions from the health insurance companies go to Democrats.”
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“Since 2009, more than 50,000 Christians have been murdered in the country of Nigeria.”
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“Over 20,000 Christian churches and schools have been burned to the ground or otherwise destroyed.”
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“The shutdown had real negative effects on the economy, on the GDP.”
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“Virtually every Democrat still voted against reopening the government. So in the Senate, the vote was 60 to 40.”
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“The vote in The House was 222 to 209, but of the 222, only six were Democrats.”
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“My prediction is Chuck Schumer doesn't even run for reelection.”
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“Virtually every Democrat, even after 43 days, voted to keep the government shut down.”
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“They claimed every day of this 43 day shutdown that they had to have major concessions on Obamacare.”
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“Even the Washington Post admits the so called Affordable Care act is not affordable.”
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“Democrats' solution to that is give $50 billion in subsidies from the taxpayers straight to giant health insurance corporations.”
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“We, the money ought to flow to individuals, to real people, and in health savings accounts that you control.”
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“We can take up another budget reconciliation that only takes 50 votes.”
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“We passed the one big beautiful bill this summer to, to fix Obamacare and effectively to repeal the mess that is Obamacare.”
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“I filed legislation in the Senate to direct the administration to designate Nigeria a country of particular concern.”
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“I've introduced legislation, the Stop Funders act to add rioting as a predicate act to RICO.”
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“My legislation would impose sanctions on particular government officials.”
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“There are 12 states in the north where Sharia laws or blasphemy laws are enforced.”
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“There's also federal Sharia and blasphemy laws that are enforced, and the government officials use those laws to discriminate against and to…”
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“Radical Islamic terrorists target Christians in particular for persecution, and the government is complicit in that persecution.”
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“Miriam Ibrahim was a Christian woman in Sudan, and she was imprisoned, and she was sentenced to receive 100 lashes and then to hang by the…”
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