Ted Cruz: “Much of her city burned down. She saw the most costly…”

“All right, so Karen Bass, I think, has demonstrated she is the most incompetent mayor you could possibly imagine being in charge of a podunk city, much less the second largest city in America. Much of her city burned down. She saw the most costly natural disaster in American history as the Pacific Palisades way rage. Mind you, this was after both LA and California had little to no fire mitigation. They allowed, they allowed the overgrowth of brush.” (05:53–06:04)

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