← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Understanding the Marxists taking over the Dem Party, plus Teaching Phonics again and NY & NJ Embrace Jew Hate & Illegal Voting
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have you with us on the radio, wherever you are around the country. And we've got a lot to cover on the show, including some very interesting news coming out of New York City. And also, Senator, some legislation on education which unfortunately we should have never had to have needed this, but here we are.
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Well, we're going to talk about the DSA and the hard left. Who are these Marxists that are rising up? Where do they come from? What's their background? What do they believe? We're also going to talk about education legislation that I introduced to get us back to the basics, to get us back to phonics, to get kids back to learning to read, to get us back to what actually works and away from woke left wing agendas that have hurt our kids for years. Then we're going to talk about what is happening in New York City. We're going to talk about Comrade Mondame who tragically you had a stabbing in New York with a, uh, zealot who screamed Aloha Akbar as he stabbed a Jewish man. And, and, and at the same time, what is Mandami doing? Not protecting the citizens of New York, but instead for a moment at least, claiming he's going to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Now he ran away from that like he touched a hot stove. I, I think finally a lawyer told him what would happen if that happened. We're going to break that down for you as well. And finally, you know, you've been told by the news over and over again that illegal voting never ever, ever happens. Illegal immigrants never ever, ever vote. And the governor of Jersey came out and said, oops, yeah, it happened a lot in New Jersey. We just kind of screwed up, registered a bunch of illegals to vote. And what do you know, they showed up and voted. We're breaking all of that down.
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Yeah, it's a computer glitch. It's never human beings, of course, never.
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And the computer made them show up and actually illeg newly vote. That's what, that's what happens.
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It's one heck of a story. We're going to touch that in just a little bit. I also want to talk to you real quick about what you can do to get involved right now and praying for the people of Israel. The headlines, many times they move on, but the heartache and terror they do not. Iran and its terrorist proxies continue to target Israel. Hezbollah continues its attacks in the north, forcing families to live under constant threat. But Israel is not only defending her people, she is standing on the front lines against terror that threatens us all. Even when the news crews leave the international fellowship of Christians and Jews they remain Every day they are on the ground and they are providing life saving aid. Near Israel's border with Lebanon, you just had a Hezbollah drone that recently struck the home of Yelena. Widowed earlier this year and living alone, she was trapped inside by that blast. Now thankfully she was not injured but she remained displace as she described it. It's hard these days but I don? T want to leave. As Christians we are called to stand with God's people and pray for those defending Israel and protecting the freedoms we hold dear. I want you to join the international fellowship of Christians and Jews in praying for the peace of Jerusalem as well as for the soldiers, the families, the civilians that are carrying the burden of this fight right now. All you have to do to to find out who you can pray for is go to prayifcj.org yes, you can join me and others praying for people in Israel in need. That's pray IFCJ.org pray IFCJ.org all right, so let's start out Senator, talking about the Democratic Socialists of America. I want to declare it now very clearly for people listening to the radio. This is a real organization. They have real power in the Democratic Party and and many believe this is actually the future of the Democratic Party including who they decide to endorse to run on the Democratic side for the presidency.
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Well let me be clear. The DSA is not simply socialist, they are communist. They are outright Marxists, they are radicals. And we are witnessing a hostile taker takeover of the Democrat Party. And look, there are some Republicans that are celebrating saying hey this is great, the other side has gone crazy, that we should be really happy. That's going to be easy to beat them in November. Let me be clear. I'm not celebrating. I think it is dangerous as all get out. Listen, I want a country with two major political parties that actually have normal people that are not nuts. I'd like, okay look, if Democrats are fans of a little bit higher taxes, a little bit more regulations, okay, like I don't agree with that, but we can have a reasonable conversation between how high taxes should be. The Marxists who are taking over the Democrat Party are absolute zealots. And I gotta say there was some very interesting polling that came out this week and it looked at voting patterns from 2016 to 2024 and who voted for the Democrat running for president, who voted for the Republican running for president. And it broke, broke the voters down into 20 quadrants. So it had, in terms of education, it had high school or less, it had some college, four year college degree or postgraduate degree. So those are the four educational levels. And then on income it had less than 30,000 a year. It had 30 to 60,000 a year. And it's 60 to 100,000 a year. It had 100 to 200,000 a year. And then finally it had 200,000 plus a year. So that's 20 quadrants. Now of, of those 20, what do you think was the single highest percentage voting for the Democrat presidential nominee?
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I'm going to guess, I'm going to guess younger just because I think that's where they get a lot of their support right now.
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Well, it is true. This was not age based though. This was education based. So younger.
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So I'm going to say less than college degree or high school diploma and I may be wrong.
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You are totally and completely wrong. I love you.
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So it's the Harvard, Yellen, Princeton crazies. That's what we're getting at here.
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It is. So the old traditional stereotype was Republicans of the party of the rich and Democrats of the party of the poor and working class. That I don't know that that was ever the case. But it is not the case today. Democrats of the parties, the party of rich coastal elites and Republicans are a blue collar party. And listen, that has been my base from the day I got elected to the Senate. My base has been truck drivers and steel workers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses. That's who my base has been. But I want you to look at these people.
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Work in the Permian is your voter.
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Look, you got a South Texas oil and gas guy, Hispanic guy, driving a pickup truck. You go bird hunting on the weekend. Those are my peeps. All right, so the single most Democrat of the 20 quadrants is postgraduate degree. So not just college. They got a postgraduate degree, masters or above, and making 30,000 to 60,000 a year. And 70% of those folks voted Democrat for president. Now who are we talking about? We're talking about a bunch of intelligence titled kids, many of whom came from wealthy families. They went to college. They weren't done yet. They went to grad school, by the way. Many of them got worthless degrees, underwater basket weaving, queer theory. And they're like, yes, I'm expressing my individuality, it turns out, by the way,
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don't forget the Taylor Swift classes. They have at the Ivy League schools. Now don't forget, that's like a master's
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degree you can get now it turns out nobody wants to pay you for queer theory that actually does not earn a paycheck. And so these are downwardly mobile, over educated, bitter ideological leftists who feel like the world owes me something and dammit, I'm mad now. Do you know what the single most Republican contingent of the 20 quadrants was?
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What was that?
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High school or less.
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Interesting.
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60,000 to 100,061% of them vote Republican. Only 39% vote Democrat. By the way, high schooler less, 100,000 to 200,000 is 40% Democrat. And high school or less, 200,000 or more is 41% Democrat. So high school or less, you're out working and succeeding. That is the base of today's Republican Party. Actually Republicans win every income level from 30,000 all the way up the so. So if you run down the high school or less, less than 30,000 Democrats narrowly narrowly win. It's 5,149. So it's almost a tie, making less than 30,000. 30 to 60,000 Democrats get 43%, 60 to 100,000 Democrats get 39%, 100 to 200,000 Democrats get 40%. And over 200,000 Democrats get 41%. So if you, if you only have a high school degree or less, you're voting Republican. Why? Because we're the party of jobs. We're the party of regular people. We're the party of people that actually go out and work and have calluses on their hands. That's what we're doing.
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We're the party of sanity, where we believe men are men and women are women. And by the way, I got.
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We believe women, women exist. It's not even we believe women are women. Like these crazy woke radicals don't believe there's such a thing as a woman.
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No, they don't. And this goes back, by the way, and I want to pause here because I think it's important to bring this into perspective when you worked hard to push the legislation for no tax on tips and no tax on overtime and also no tax, you know, on the Social Security, like all of those things that Donald Trump was talking about. America first, you were pushing this legislation very, very hard and leading it through the Senate. That explains also a lot about where the ball has moved as well. Yes, the Republican Party was the one that came up with this and Donald Trump, not the Democrats. By the way, Democrats fought against it. Remind people how they voted on that issue.
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So listen, on no tax on tips. I'm the author of that. I wrote the legislation that has no tax on tips. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll often tell the waiter and waitresses, hey, by the way, how do you like no tax on tips? They all love it. The average deduction is over seven grand. You want to talk about like a single mom waiting tables, that's real money in her pocket for her kids. When I'm at, when I'm getting like my haircut at the barbers, like my barbers are giving me a high five saying thank you. That is, that has always been my base, but that's the base of the Republican Party. You contrast that to the educational line. That is most Democrat are people with postgraduate degrees and postgraduate degrees making less than 30,000. They vote 67% Democrat. 30,000 to 60,000, they vote 70% Democrat. The single most Democrat of all 20 quadrants. Postgraduate degree making 60,000 to 100,000, they vote 65% Democrat. Postgraduate degree making 100,000 to 200,000, they make six. They vote 65% Democrat. And postgraduate degree making more than 200,000, they vote 66% Democrats. So if you have a, and by the way, I've got a law degree. So apparently I did not learn the indoctrination that I was supposed to learn going to college and law school. And by the way, the college numbers are not much better if you go to college. And Ben, I'm sorry to tell you, this is not broken out. Did you go to Harvard? This is. Did you go to college? So you went to Ole Miss? Yeah, those numbers are there too. Everyone with a college degree is a majority voting Democrat right now. And I think the ideological indoctrination from colleges plays a big, big part of this.
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Well, and it's not just college. It's also happening in our public schools at all levels. You see it in the indoctrination. Elementary schools, you see this in the indoctrination we've seen with the gay pride days and the indoctrination of, of, of those types of scenarios and men and women's locker room and boys and girls, or girls and boys sports, like the indoctrination in the elementary and the middle and the high school is just as bad. The, the unions have taken that space over. They are using it as a, is a ground to prey on kids minds to get them to believe that somehow America and democracy and capitalism is genuinely evil. And if you tell them that for 12 years, then send them to college and you indoctrinate them again. Now we're witnessing what happens.
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And by the way, that's a big part of the reason why last year I also authored the biggest school choice bill in American history that is going to help millions of kids get out of failing schools and get a good education. And why I also authored the Trump accounts, which is going to create a whole new generation of capitalists as our kids become invested in the stock markets and owners of, of the biggest employers in America. Let me tell you what Nate Silver wrote. Look, Nate Silver is this, this writer who is not a conservative. He's left of center. But here's what he writes. Quote, what is the most Democratic voting group in America? It's voters with postgraduate degrees, but lower to middle household incomes of 30,000 to 60,000 per year. This is very much also the sweet spot for the DSA. In the group's most recent member survey in 2021, 80% of members, this is of the DSA of the crazy left wing Marxist aged 25 or older had bachelor's degrees.
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Wow.
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But 45% had household incomes but below 60,000 per year. And so listen, part of this is these are young knuckleheads, many of them growing up with wealth, some with trust funds, who were told to go to school. And nobody actually said, hey, when you go to school, if you're going to go to college, maybe you ought to study something, that you could get a job, that you could produce something of value. And the concept of, I want to provide for my family, so I want to do something that's valuable. Look, a plumber does something of value. A cop does something of value. A teacher does something of value, A doctor does something of value, A nurse does something of value. And yet these left wing radicals were told, you don't need to actually study something that can produce a good or service people want. You should just gaze at your navel and engage in political rantings and ravings. And so part of the reason why they become communists is they think the world owes them a living. They can't actually produce anything valuable. You know, if you were out digging ditches, that's valuable. A high school graduate who's out getting work as a construction worker knows, if I want to get paid, I got to go out and put up Sheetrock. That is a big, big difference.
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Senator, I want to move to this education bill that is so important that you have been working on. Explain what this bill is, why it's important right now, and why Americans should be paying attention to It, Yeah.
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Look, you talked a minute ago about how one of the reasons why we're having young people, particularly young people who stay in the education system for a long time, get so radicalized. So left wing, so America hating, so capitalism hating, so, so communism embracing, is because our education system is broken. And that's certainly true at the university level, particularly the so called elite universities, but it is also true in K through 12. And one consequence of K through 12 getting radicalized is that it drives the politics crazy left. But another consequence is they failed in their basic job of teaching. And you used to go and learn the three Rs, reading, writing and arithmetic. And, and I mean that used to be like the core of what you were learning.
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Yeah. If you look at a novel idea, by the way, what a novel idea you go to, you go to school to learn to read, writing to arithmetic, like, isn't that amazing that someone came up with that curriculum one day and then we just decided to abandon it? Right.
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Well, and there is a literacy crisis. The numbers of students coming out of school who can't read, who don't have the ability to read is staggering. I'm going to give you some of the stats. So in 2024, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, what's, what's called the NAEP, the, the reading assessment showed that 33% of eighth graders are reading at a level that is, quote, below basic.33%. A third of eighth graders can't read at even the barest minimum of levels. For 12th graders, the average reading scores were 3 points lower than in 2019 and 10 points lower than in 1992. So it is a staggering crisis. And one of the big reasons for that is that you've had left wing radicals take over teachers, colleges, education programs, the teachers unions, and they've moved away from what actually works. They've adopted an approach to reading that is called three queuing. So three queuing is something that uses context and pictures and sentence structures rather than phonics. Look, when I learned to read, we learned phonics. We would diagram sentences. Phonics works. And you know what? We now know three queuing does not. It's a disaster and it's produced terrible results. So a number of states, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin have all banned teaching 3QA because the data are terrible. It fails to teach kids to read. What is amazing though is a number of schools instead have focused on what's called the science of reading, which is going back to phonics. Going back to the basics of teaching reading. And the results have been staggering. And there's something called, all right, you're an Ole Miss grad. You're going to like this. There's something called the Mississippi miracle of this already.
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Keep, keep, keep singing this song.
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I'm ready. In 2013, Mississippi's reading numbers were not good. Mississippi was 49th in the nation.
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Yeah.
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On the national assessments and reading they began then going in on the science of reading and vigorously teaching phonics. And Mississippi has risen from 49 in the country to a top 10 state in the country in fourth grade reading achievement. By the way, it wasn't money that did it. It was actually teaching what works. Uh, Alabama, by the way, did the same thing. They moved from 49th to 34th. Um, L.A. louisiana moved from 49th to 32nd. And, and here's what the New York Times said. You're going to like this. The New York Times said in 2019, blue states had better average test scores than red states after adjusting for demographics. Now red states are mostly ahead. That's the New York Times. And so what happened on this legislation is I introduced legislation this week that takes the existing federal grants that go to education. There's a pretty big funding stream from the federal government to states for education. And the reading funds, the legislation I introduced said if you want to get those reading funds, you have to use the reading methods that are demonstrated empirically to work. You have to have what actually works and what the data shows work. You can't teach this garbage that results in kids not learning. You've got to use the empirically successful methods. And what's interesting, by the way, who's against this bill?
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Because if you have the data you just mentioned there showing where this is working, you would think this would be bipartisan.
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So it actually is. So I introduced this bill with Brian Schatz. Brian Schatz is a Democrat. He's from Hawaii. Interestingly enough, Bryan is widely considered the next Democrat leader in the Senate. He's widely considered the most likely successor to Chuck Schumer.
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Interesting.
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And Brian I know, well, he's a friend of mine. He's on the Commerce Committee with me. I'm the chairman of the Commerce Committee. He and I have done a number of bills together. And look, when you talk with Brian, he's a Democrat, so he can be left wing on a lot of issues, but one on one, he can be quite reasonable. As you know, I play hoops every week. Brian's come out several times and played hoops with me. And I'm gonna say something that's gonna surprise you. This bill was his idea.
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Really.
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He came to me. He came to me on the Senate floor and he said, ted, have you seen the data from Mississippi and the Mississippi Miracle and the incredible reading scores that are coming out of Mississippi? And by the way, this doesn't happen often. Democrats don't praise red states that often. And I said, yeah, I have. It's fantastic. And he said, what do you think about us joining together to draft legislation that would require, if you're going to get the federal funds that are going for literacy, you've got to teach using the reading methods that the data show actually produce results. And I said, I think that'd be fantastic. I'm a huge fan of phonics. I don't like these woke teaching methods that are just a failure and a disaster. And it's interesting, my team, I went to them and I said, hey, you know, shots pitch doing this. And my team was skeptical. They said, we don't really believe a Democrat's gonna go along with something that is praising what's working in red states. And by the way, implicitly criticizing the woke education policies in many blue states. To Brian's credit. Look, I mean, we introduced it together. You asked who opposes it. I will confess it's early enough now that I don't want to give you an answer to that. My assumption, my assumption is the teachers unions will oppose it. My assumption is some of the blue states will oppose it. And the sort of woke educrats, the people who are teaching at the education schools who are teaching teachers who are teaching this nonsense, that doesn't work. I assume all those guys will oppose it. But. But I'll say this, we just introduced it. I'm going to try to see if we could move it forward and maybe we get support for it. I hope we do.
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By the way, what do you need when you say move it forward so people understand? And this is one of the reasons why I love doing the show. When you say you're hoping you get the support, what does moving it forward actually look like in the legislature?
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So look, you dropped the bill initially. The next step that we'll work on doing is trying to get other supporters, trying to get other co sponsors. So I'll reach out to other Republicans and other Democrats. Brian will reach out to other Democrats and also Republicans. I'd like to get a pretty good group of bipartisan co sponsors. And there are a number of Democrats that I've worked with on different bills.
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Who.
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And particularly given that it's Brian and me, I think we can get other senators to co sponsor it. So let's say we get a half dozen Rs and a half dozen Ds. That starts to be a bill that's got some real heft to it because you look particularly if you've got some ideological diversity, the bill would go to committee at first. I assume this would go to what's called the HELP Committee, which is the Health, Education, labor and Pensions Committee. So the first step is to get the committee to mark it up. We'll work to get more by more sponsors to get a bigger coalition behind it. And then I'll go to the chairman of that committee, that's Bill Cassidy, and ask him to mark it up, which is for the committee to take it up and pass it. And if we've got a good enough coalition behind it, we've got a real chance at the that once it gets out of committee, there are a couple of paths you can take to passing it. One path is to try to pass it by unanimous consent. Now, I've passed a lot by unanimous consent. If you do the work and build the coalition, you can get things done that way, but a single senator can object. So I don't know right now if this is possible. You may have an Elizabeth Warren or someone in the far left who objects to this. The other way to pass it is to attach it to another vehicle that is moving, another bill that is being passed to put it on that. And so we've got some time to get there. We've got to build the coalition. We got to get it out of committee. We've got to get it teed up where it's at a position to then try to pass it. And then when you get out of the Senate, then you try to pass it in the House. And I'm confident the president would sign it. So we are early in that process. But I'm encouraged to see that we're able to get a Democrat and Republican working together saying, look, we really ought to teach our kids to read.
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It should be 100 to 1, in my opinion. Teaching kids to read. That should not be a problem.
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And it might be.
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Senator, we got two big things I want to make sure we get in the show. One of them deals with Mandani. He's now taking heat from the extreme left because he gave them the story that he was going to arrest Netanyahu. He did say in his video as he's now taking those words back that he believes that Bibi Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be arrested and that America should get on board with the international court, yada, yada, yada. But he's now taking heat because people feel like they he lied to them. They were expecting that he was going to walk up to Bibi and I guess arrest him himself.
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Well, look, we were talking a minute ago about the consequences of woke left wing radicalized education, Both K through 12 and college. We're seeing the fruits of that, sadly, especially in New York City and in New Jersey. In New York City, Comrade Mandami is a Marxist and an Islamist. He is a perfect example of the Green Red alliance. And he is extreme. And we saw some of the tragic consequences this week. We had a Jewish man and an Asian man who were stabbed outside Central park by an attacker who yelled Allahu Akbar as he was stabbing them. Now, I will say all the press coverage described this as a possible hate crime. Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure why you need the word possible when you yell Allahu Akbar. That tells you exactly what you're doing. And this happens the same week that Comrade Mandami put out a video pledging that if Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, the elected Prime Minister of Israel, comes to the United nations to give a speech, that he intends to arrest Netanyahu because Netanyahu is a war criminal. That's part of the talking points of the left. And look, understand the left right now, they hate Israel and they hate Jews. And to be clear, when they're attacking Netanyahu and they're attacking Israel, that's a proxy. They hate Jews. They hate American Jews too. There is a reason you see violence against Jews, particularly in places where you have rhetoric like what Mandami does, because that's what they're saying. Now what's interesting is, is Mandami said he was going to arrest Netanyahu and then almost immediately pivoted and reversed and said nevermind. And I assume that is because the Trump administration made very clear, if you try to do this, federal officers will intervene, they will stop you, and you will face federal consequences. It is illegal. You have no authority. Now, his claim basis for the arrest was the International Criminal Court has indicted Netanyahu for what they call war crimes. Now, understand the International Criminal Court, the
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CC is one heck of a group, by the way. Keep going.
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It is a radical left wing Israel hating America, hating disaster of an institution. And America is not a party to the icc. We've refused to be A part of it, because the ICC hates us and the ICC hates Israel. And in fact, Congress passed a law called the American Service Members Protection act, where state and local governments in the United States are explicitly barred by federal law from cooperating with the icc because they are so. Look, the same lunatics who've indicted Benjamin Netanyahu would happily indict Donald Trump and would happily indict our soldiers on the ground defending America.
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Absolutely.
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And so Israel is not a party of the ICC because they're, They're. They're a radical and biased group, and America is not a party of the icc. And so Mandami backed away because I think, I assume his lawyers told him, if you try to do this, you will see federal officers come in and stop you. You may face direct federal consequences, including potentially being arrested by the feds, and you will certainly face legal liability, and the city of New York will be sued for a ginormous amount of money if you try to do this. And he backed away. Now, at the same time, New York is saying, if the elected Prime Minister of Israel comes to the city, we're going to arrest you. What happens in New Jersey, by the
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way, this is truly an incredible story. Get ready. I love the excuse from the New Jersey governor, as she just put it out in a tweet. Oh, we accidentally. But it was a computer glitch. Yeah, we. We registered a bunch of thousands of. Of illegal. Over 6,600 illegal immigrants. Uh, and then, oh, yeah, by the way, some of them actually voted. But don't worry, this is all Donald Trump's fault somehow, and not our fault. And it wasn't even my fault. It was the former governor of New Jersey administration that allowed this to happen. So really, it's not my problem at all. Just put it out there to tweet.
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Well, and, and look, of course it's all Trump's fault, because everything in the world is Trump's fault. For a radical Democrat. But, but listen here. Here's how Fox News reported what happened. Quote, New Jersey removes 6,600 people from voter rolls who were eligible to cast a ballot for the 2024 election. These thousands of non citizens were registered to vote between June of 2023 and June of 2024, ahead of the last presidential election. New Jersey Governor Mickey Sherrill announced Tuesday that the state had removed roughly 6,600 non citizens from its voter rolls who would have been eligible to vote in the 2024 presidential election. Cheryl, a Democrat, said there was a, quote, serious software error in New Jersey's motor vehicle system that led to thousands of people without legal status being registered to vote between 2023 and 2024. Quote, in the case of this error, some individuals indicated they weren't citizens and weren't eligible to vote, but the software registered them anyway. The error in the software was corrected a year later in June of 2024. Now, look, if you listen to Democrats, if you listen to the media, although I repeat myself, you would say, okay, it doesn't matter that they were registered, because it never, ever, ever happens that illegal aliens vote in federal elections. Well, according to the state's preliminary findings, fewer than 400 individuals who were improperly registered ended up voting. That means you had about 400 people show up. They were illegal aliens, they were not citizens, and they voted. They actually cast a vote. Cheryl said they lived all across the state and mostly lacked a party affiliation. Understand, look, this is something. And by the way, this is not just happening in New Jersey. This is happening in New York. It's happening in California. It's happening in every state of the country. Now, in red states where you have Republicans who are actually committed to the rule of law, law enforcement is working to prevent illegal aliens from being registered, to prosecute them if they try to vote illegally, to require voter ID before you vote. That's the Save America act, which would make this a national requirement. Look, the Save America act means that these individuals would not have been registered to vote. But the Democrats, every one of them is opposing the Save America Act. And this is the absolute gall of the elected Democrats in New Jersey to blame Trump. This is all Trump's fault. There is a level of dishonesty. Today's Democrat Party has decided voter fraud is good for it politically. It benefits Democrats, fraud benefits Democrats. And so Democrats in Congress, any measure to prevent fraud, they oppose. And it's a lot of why we are where we are now. Look, I think California, they may still be counting the ballots from the last election because it's such an absolute joke what's going on there.
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Yeah, it really is incredible. Yeah, it really is incredible. Don't forget, by the way, we do this show, if you're listening on radio stations right now, we do this show three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And you don't want to miss an episode. Especially we're talking, like, important issues like these today. So download Verdict with Ted Cruz wherever you get your podcast. And if you like watching the show, you can also watch on YouTube, you can just put in Verdict with Ted Cruz and it'll pop up there and you can watch the show there as well, and the Senate. I will see you on the podcast this week and back on this station next week as well.