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Ted Cruz: “Tim Kaine said the idea that our rights come from God is a…”

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… that I had planned to go down on the hearing, and I threw it all in the trash. And I spoke shortly after Tim Kaine. And I said, you know, Tim Kaine said the idea that our rights come from God is a radical and dangerous and extreme idea. And he's right, it is. It also happens to be the founding principle upon which our nation was created. (18:34–18:40)

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