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Ted Cruz: “The murder rate has dropped 20% in the first year of the…”

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

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Murder Rate Plummets-Trump Literally Saving Lives plus Disastrous Jack Smith Testimony

Published | Video Starts at 08:38

Although the one thing I'll disagree with you on is you said countless lives. We actually can count the lives that have been saved. And the lives that have been saved are staggering. We just discussed how The murder rate has dropped 20% in the first year of the Trump administration to the lowest rate since 1960. the lowest rate in 66 years. That means roughly 1,400Americans are alive today who would have been Murdered if Joe Biden and the Democrats soft on crime, open border policies were still in effect. (08:38–08:47)

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Asserts a 20% drop in the murder rate during the first year of the Trump administration, reaching the lowest rate since 1960.

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