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Ted Cruz: “You can't buy a hot dog stand in Palm Beach for $18 million.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:04

And I offered it on the spot. I said, Mr. President, I'll give you 20 million right now. Yeah, I'll take two. I mean, as you know, You can't buy a hot dog stand in Palm Beach for $18 million. And that notion, to me, it was the most ludicrous. It was a relatively small detail of what was a pile of idiocy upon idiocy. But you guys were the targets of it. (03:04–03:08)

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Asserts that $18 million is insufficient to purchase a hot dog stand in Palm Beach.

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