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Ted Cruz: “Jay Jones is the one who texted that he wanted to see the…”

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He's Cuban American. He got 46.7%. So it was, as of right now, 1147, Jay Jones got 1,740,370 votes, and Miyar has got 1,533,841 votes. That is truly shocking because Jay Jones is the one who texted that he wanted to see the children of the Republican speaker of the House murdered. And it was. Yeah, at a time of political violence, this sick, depraved psychopath. And I'm sorry if you were wishing. And by the way, he knew those children. (37:47–37:56)

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