Ted Cruz: “Platner will be gone, which he should have been gone a long…”

“That's like my favorite quote from her, besides being Pocahontas. Well, and, and I will say it is a sad expose of the Democrat Party because they're going to take, take, take him out. Platner will be gone, which he should have been gone a long, long time ago. He should have been off the ballot. Someone like this should not be in the United States Senate. Uh, but, but they're doing this. The only reason that, that they turned on him is because his poll numbers dropped and they believed, uh, oh, this guy's gonna lose.” (26:31–26:37)

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