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Ted Cruz: “You can condition [federal grants] on election integrity…”

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

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You can, for example, condition federal grants, for example, the Help America Vote act grants, which are grants that go to help fund elections. You can, You can condition [federal grants] on election integrity. You can take those away from sanctuary cities. So I'm arguing we ought to be using, like, let's take this opportunity to pass legislation that Republicans agree with. Let's win victories. Let's not give up the chance to win victories as before. (22:26–22:33)

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Asserts that federal grants can be conditioned on election integrity and removed from sanctuary cities.

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