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Ted Cruz: “The Republican Party has become a blue collar party.”

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

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Ted Cruz at CPAC on 'No Kings Day'

Published | Video Starts at 07:58

And I want to say within the conservative movement, the question of what do we believe is important as well. In many ways, the most important political shift of the last decade is The Republican Party has become a blue collar party. It used to be conventional wisdom that Republicans are the party of the rich and Democrats are the party of the poor and working class. (07:58–08:02)

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Asserts that the Republican Party now represents blue-collar workers.

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