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Ted Cruz: “The Democrat party is the party of rich coastal elites.”

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

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Ted Cruz at CPAC on 'No Kings Day'

Published | Video Starts at 08:39

Today, the Republican Party is the party of truck drivers and steel workers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and the men and women with calluses on their hands who go to work every day and provide for their families. And The Democrat party is the party of rich coastal elites. effete leftists sipping soy lattes with their pinkies in the air. And I will say, within our movement, there is also a debate about whether we believe in small government … (08:39–08:45)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party represents wealthy coastal elites.

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