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Ted Cruz: “There was a possibility, not a likelihood, but a…”

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And California has this weird jungle primary where there's not a Democrat primary and a Republican primary. Everyone runs on the same ballot, and the top two vote getters make it to the general election. And so There was a possibility, not a likelihood, but a possibility, that the top two vote getters could be the two Republicans. And I will say for Democrats, their heads would explode if they went to the general election. And it were a hundred percent certainty that the next Governor of California was going to be a Republican. (33:23–33:32)

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Asserts that there was a possibility that two Republicans could be the top vote-getters in the California primary.

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