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Ted Cruz: “The Spanish vaqueros were a predecessor to the Mexican…”

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

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Her name is Cortez and she doesn't actually know about Cortez. Like the Spaniards bringing horses and bringing look, yes, the Mexican vaqueros were a predecessor to American cowboys, but The Spanish vaqueros were a predecessor to the Mexican vaqueros. But you know what, A little Marxist like AOC or Gavin Newsom, they don't want to acknowledge that Europe existed or did anything good. And so they have to, because all is ideology. (30:22–30:26)

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Asserts that Spanish vaqueros preceded Mexican vaqueros in cowboy tradition.

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