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Ted Cruz: “One point I've said many times is that when I was a student…”

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Or is this also about the fact that Harvard has no problem agreeing on a lot of issues with China? Well, it's both. And listen, the Harvard faculty is hard left. One point I've said many times is that when I was a student at Harvard Law School, there were more professors who were communists than there were who were Republicans. And that's not hyperbole. There were at least a dozen professors who openly said they were Marxists, that they were followers of the teachings of Karl Marx and followers of, you know, Karl Marx is the father of Communism. (17:32–17:44)

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Asserts that there were more communist professors than Republican ones at Harvard Law School during his time as a student.

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