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Ted Cruz: “Of the remaining 16 [Republican candidates in 2016], there…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Gerard Baker in Conversation with Texas Senator Ted Cruz

Published | Video Starts at 06:59

But if you go back to the 2016 presidential campaign, so there were 17 Republicans who ran for president in 2016. Do you set Rand Paul aside as his views being on one edge? Of the remaining 16 [Republican candidates in 2016], there were only two who thought the Iraq war was a mistake. Me and Donald Trump. Yeah. The other 14 all thought it was a good idea. I thought it was a mistake. Marco Rubio, by the way, who was running? (06:59–07:04)

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Asserts that only two out of 16 Republican candidates in 2016 thought the Iraq war was a mistake.

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