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Ted Cruz: “President Trump came in and in the first year of his second…”

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

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Remember, these are the same people who were trying to ban the internal combustion engine and force everyone to buy an electric vehicle. So they wanted high gas prices and they got what they wanted. President Trump came in and in the first year of his second term, we saw gas prices drop nearly in half to about three bucks a gallon. That made a huge difference. That lifted a big load off the shoulders of a lot of Americans. And it was the result of common sense, sound economic policies ending the regulatory assault on oil and gas. (15:33–15:41)

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Asserts that gas prices dropped to about $3 per gallon in the first year of Trump's second term.

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