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Ted Cruz: “The first Republican president is who signed the…”

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

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State of the Union Extravaganza

Published | Video Starts at 13:24

And by the way, our party, I mean, we often refer to our party as the party of Lincoln, but we were literally founded to abolish slavery. Right. That's why the Republican Party came together. And by the way, we did. The first Republican president is who signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Well, you know, on Rachel Animus and Rashida Tlaib, did you see, I don't know if you caught this, but when President Trump said, what a wonderful thing, we released all the hostages. (13:24–13:29)

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Asserts that the first Republican president signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

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