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Ted Cruz: “Virtually all speech requires the expenditure of money.”

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

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And what that means now is that the parties will be able to spend and use. Look, there are some people who say money isn't speech. That view is objectively wrong. Virtually all speech requires the expenditure of money. You go back to the founding era. Look, the Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers were op EDS printed in the newspaper in New York and they were advocating for ratification of the Constitution. (31:51–31:55)

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Asserts that money is necessary for most forms of speech.

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