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Ted Cruz: “That was, at the time, the record for the most hard money…”

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

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So let Me give you a little bit of the math. Third quarter of 2018, I raised $12 million in hard money. People going to my website contributing money. That was, at the time, the record for the most hard money any Senate candidate had raised in a single quarter in the history of the state of Texas. Wow. Do you know how long my record lasted? I'm going to guess like, three seconds. Two hours. It took two hours. There we go. So. So my record was 12 million. (16:29–16:38)

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Asserts that $12 million was a record for hard money raised by a Senate candidate in Texas in a single quarter.

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