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Ted Cruz: “Tom Steyer, the billionaire who is spending millions and…”

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Swalwell Quits as Scandal Rips, Can Republicans Reconcile behind Reconciliation & the Tax Plan Se...

Published | Video Starts at 06:09

And part of the reason is that that you had multiple Democrats splitting the vote and you had Eric Swalwell and Katie Porter, both a former House member and current House member, slugging it out. You've also got Tom Steyer, the billionaire who is spending millions and millions of dollars trying to buy the nomination. And so you had Democrats splitting their votes. That was helping the Republicans. And suddenly I think Democrats saw a partisan value to getting rid of Swalwell and they took him out ruthlessly. (06:09–06:17)

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Asserts that Tom Steyer is spending large sums of money in the California governor race.

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