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- [00:00]
Joe Biden
I was very clear when laying out and defining what, you know, MAGA Republicans have done. And you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they're doing in attacking our democracy, what they're doing in taking away our freedoms, taking away, wanting to take away our rights, our voting rights. I mean, that is what that is. It is very clear. The MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party. That extreme. This is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights. They just don't respect the rule of law.
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Ted Cruz
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Michael Knowles
Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. Such a pleasure to be joined by all of you semi fascists, you extreme threats to democracy. Thank you so much, all of you, for subscribing to verdict on YouTube and Spotify and Apple podcasts, and of course, on locals at the Verdict community. Please do that before you destroy the democracy. Senator, were you aware. I was not aware. Were you aware that we're all a Bunch of fascists before the White House.
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Ted Cruz
Told us so, you know, for a long time, communists have been calling their enemies fascists. That has been a talking point from the radical left. That being said, you know, I think we're seeing a new development that is really troubling, which it is one thing for people in politics to demonize their political opponents. It is an entirely new threshold to start demonizing the voters. We should not be surprised to see Biden's White House press secretary saying nasty things about Donald Trump. We understand she doesn't like Donald Trump. Biden doesn't like Donald Trump. We shouldn't be surprised to see her saying nasty things about me or other elected Republicans. This is a very different thing, though. She is blasting half the country. I mean, this is reminiscent of, of Hillary Clinton's deplorables line, like, if you dare to vote against our regime, you're a fascist, you're a deplorable. And you know, part of the problem with that is, is it sets the predicate then for people to be silenced, for people to be canceled. It sets the predicate, you know, to use the idiotic language of the left. In some ways, it's. It's an invitation to attack and even an invitation to violence. It is, again, to use the left's language, it is othering. And I think it is harmful to our country. And the problem is Joe Biden is doing it deliberately. The White House press secretary is doing it deliberately. These politicians and their henchmen have decided to try to demonize half the country. And it's really, really dangerous. It's dishonest, and it's wrong.
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Michael Knowles
Well, the half the country part, I think, is the important one, because the statement is simply incoherent. If you say that half the country is a threat to government of the people, by the people and for the people, that the only way that we can have government of the people by the people and for the people is by getting rid of half the people. That, of course, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Do you think that the White House will pay for this comment in the way that Hillary Clinton did? Because it seems like it's even much further than Hillary went to call someone deplorable. That's one thing to say, hey, you're basically a black shirt or a Nazi. That's quite another. I mean, that's much more intense even than what Hillary Clinton did. Will it matter in November?
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Ted Cruz
Well, look, I think for the people spewing this, they're spewing it from ignorance. They don't actually know what fascists are, but for them, it's ironic that she says the very definition of fascist. What she means by fascist is something I don't like. You bad person. That fascist. Mm. Like she has no sense of it whatsoever. And it is deeply disturbing to see the White House used as a vehicle for active disinformation. You know, we also saw in the past week her stand up and answer a question about immigration and people walking across the border. And she says, well, that's not what's happening. That's just not what's happening. And holy crap. Like. Like there are lies. And I actually wonder if the reporters in the briefing room moved back a few feet, afraid lightning was gonna strike her at the podium. There were two and only two possibilities, Michael. Either that she is deliberately ignorant, she has no idea what's happening at the border, or she's deliberately lying. There's not a third possibility. It is one or the other. So I'm gonna make an invitation right now to Karine Jean Pierre. If you believe it's not happening, that people are walking across the border, Karine, I invite you. Come to Texas. Come to the Rio Grande Valley. Spend one hour on the border, and I promise you, you and I will see dozens, if not hundreds of people walking across the border. You know what? You can pick any damn hour of the day you want. You can come at 2 in the morning, you can come at noon. You will see them coming because they are coming every single hour. And then let me say also to the corrupt corporate media, every single person that holds themself out as a fact checker, PolitiFact, the Washington Post, all of these bogus yellow journalists, if all of them have not immediately called this an 11 alarm pants on fire, then they are every bit as complicit in the mendacity as is the White House. That pays her to misinform the American people.
- [07:27]
Michael Knowles
This, I suppose, was what was most shocking. Yes, when the White House attacks Donald Trump, okay, you expect that. When the White House attacks Republican voters, that's. You don't necessarily expect that, but okay, this is politics. It's within the realm of plausibility. But then when Karine Jean Pierre comes out and says, no, people aren't crossing the border, when we're looking at 2 million or really more than 2 million illegal border crossings to happen this year, that's so strange. When Karine Jean Pierre apparently doesn't know what the administration, her own administration, has done about Title 42, as that pertains to illegal border crossings. That to me, I just don't understand it. And if it were willful ignorance, I don't understand why this woman would want to hang herself out to dry like this and make her look so extremely uninformed, if not unintelligent when talking to reporters.
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Ted Cruz
Well, the corporate media is in part to blame because she recognizes she's not gonna be held to account. She knows the Washington Post will happily carry her water. She knows PolitiFact won't check it. She knows everyone will ignore it. It's the reason why. You know, we've had lots of discussion about why does Joe Biden not go down to the border. It's not that he doesn't wanna see it. It's that if he comes, the cameras will follow and their only strategy is ignore the chaos. You know, the last time I took seven senators down to the border, a coup. We went out on midnight patrol and within minutes we encountered the first group that had just crossed the border. A few minutes later we encountered the second group and it was one after the other after the other. You don't have to hunt for them, you don't have to look for them. It is a constant stream of humanity. And I gotta say, by the way, kudos to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, my friend. He's added now he was sending illegal immigrants to Washington D.C. and New York. Those hypocritical Democratic mayors are throwing hissy fits. And he just announced, guess what? Chicago is next. I think that is fabulous. Lori Lightfoot said we would love lots of illegal immigrants in Chicago. Literally. She did. She said we would welcome them. I'm very curious. In start the stopwatch, I'm predicting 6 days, 13 hours and 12 minutes before she freaks out and calls Greg Abbott Sauron, the embodiment of evil destroying humanity. Because she gets, you know, four or five thousand illegal immigrants. Texas has had three and a half.
- [09:55]
Michael Knowles
Million, right so far. It's been a lot of NIMBYism. You know, not in my backyard. From the blue state Democrats and the blue City Democrats, though, I have to wonder when we're talking about sending these people to Chicago. A lot of people leave their Latin American countries because the conditions are not great. There's not a lot of economic prosperity, and it's actually just downright dangerous there. If you're going to Chicago, frankly, I suspect it's gonna be more dangerous there than it is in a lot of the places that these people are fleeing from. And Senator, I've got to bring this up because as usual, the last week's episode of Verdict drops. And then I just wait. I wait to see what the left wing media are going to attack us for this time. They did not disappoint. They're very upset with you because you pointed out that some people who take out a ton of student loans, who study useless things like gender studies or some other kind of nonsense, then end up working all sorts of jobs they don't want to be working, including as barista's senator. You ended up in a Bernie Sanders campaign video.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, it really was quite amazing. Bernie put out an official video responding to Verdict. I love when this podcast drives the political news. I will say also that and all of the Bernie Bros. Their heads exploded, I gotta say. By the way, you knew that was gonna happen. Because when we were doing the last episode and I talked about the slackers who had wasted six years with getting a useless degree working as baristas might come out and vote if they can get off their bong long enough to do so. I saw in the register your eyes grow wide as you were like, oh, crap. But I also. All right, I want to tap into your Yale education because there is a logical fallacy that these lefties are engaged in. When I said that some slackers are baristas, they translated that into all baristas are slackers are slackers, which is just not. You know, maybe you could help me out with deductive logic, but I'm pretty sure that second statement doesn't flow from the first. Are there people who wasted years studying utterly useless things, who couldn't get a job afterwards and who are now working as a barista and are slackers? Yes, those people do exist. Is every barista slacker? Of course not. There are wonderful, great people who are baristas who, by the way, many of whom don't have student loans and are getting screwed by the Democrats because they're saying, the guy that studied queer pet literature and has $100,000 in debt because oddly enough, you know, to reference another podcast, you know, Mickey and Pluto going at it, other than getting a job at Disney, there's not a lot of job market for queer pet literature.
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Michael Knowles
It did occur to me, it did occur to me that being a barista, that's an honest job. You wouldn't attack a barista. I love my barista. Right. But there are plenty of very, very useless jobs and useless workers in America. And then, what a coincidence. On this story, one of the most absolutely useless, counterproductive people in the United States would be Randy Weingarten. The head of the teacher union. And Randy Weingarten also jumped on the campaign after Bernie dinged you for it. And Randy Weingarten led a sort of barista themed video to attack you as being, you know, I don't know, anti worker or something like that.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah. So two points on this one. There's a reason why the lefty Twitter mafia leapt on this so aggressively, which is today's Democratic Party hates working class people. They're hammering working class people. They work for the billionaires on the coast. They do things that are massive wealth transfers from working class people to privileged elites. This student loan forgiveness is an example of that. But their policies killing American energy, driving inflation. I mean, everything they're doing right now is responding to California environmentalist billionaires rather than blue collar steelworkers. So they leapt on the barista comment dishonestly because they wanted to claim to be a champion of the working man. But it only works if they're doing what Karine Jean Pierre did, which is being deliberately dishonest. Look, as you know, my dad washed dishes. The baristas who are full of ambition and want to work hard and climb the ladder to the American dream, that's a fantastic thing. But under Joe Biden and the Democrats, it's harder and harder for them to do that. And, you know, you talk about Randy Weingarten, I guess it is difficult to think of a person in the last three years who has done more damage to the United States of America than Randy Weingarten. She has that. There's no person more responsible for the school lockdowns. We had schools all across America shut down and many blue states shut down for weeks and then months and then over a year. And you know, just this week the test story scores came out and I want to read what, what they were because it really is stunning. So the average scores for nine year old students in 2022 declined five points in reading and seven points in mathematics compared to 2025 points and seven points. And then it's even worse. The learning loss was experienced by kids across race and income levels, but it was particularly severe among low performing and minority students. Black students lost 13 points in math, and the white black score gap went from 25 points in 2020 all the way up to 33 points in 2022. So congratulations, Democrats. Congratulations, Randy Widegarten. You screwed millions of kids in America. They're doing worse in reading, they're doing worse in math. That will stay with them in all likelihood the rest of their lives. And in particular, you sc, you screwed African American and Hispanic kids. And the gap is wider than it's been in a long, long time because of Randy Weingarten and Joe Biden and every Senate Democrat who happily voted along with them in favor of the school lockdowns.
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Michael Knowles
Yeah, truly a more odious figure in American public life than Randy Weingarten and. And the public school unions. It would be hard to point to. I mean, the effects of that are just so awful. As you say, it's not as though you can just fix that overnight. Wave a magic wand and okay, the scores are better now. This is going to track a very long time. And so it's really, really rich to hear lectures on labor from that woman. Speaking of being really tough on the kids and putting kids in horrible situations, there is a story that, well, one cries out to God for vengeance, but also cries out to Washington D.C. and state legislatures for justice. Which is that in California now there is a doctor who was just caught on video admitting that he performs transgender surgeries on minors. And not just minors, on 13 year old girls. And not just on 13 year old girls. He says I would perform it on 12 year olds. They just haven't approached me yet. He says there is no lower limit to the age of children on whom I would perform these surgeries. It's obviously ghastly, the idea of a hysterectomy in a 12 or 13 year old. My question is, what can we do about this heinous child abuse?
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Ted Cruz
Look, it's not just the doctor that's carrying out these horrific acts of child abuse. It's the entire dishonest political system and media system. It is our democratic politicians who refuse to acknowledge this is happening. It is the corrupt corporate media who refuses to acknowledge that it's happening. It's Big Tech that silence anyone who points out it's happening. Look, as we sit here today, Libs of TikTok, a fabulous account run by an orthodox Jewish woman, is still banned from TikTok. Why? For reporting the truth. Which is the children's hospital in Boston, Massachusetts was performing mutilations, life altering surgeries on minors. And actually, Libs of TikTok, a sometimes humorous but incredibly valuable Twitter account, not just documented it on the website of the hospital which advertised that they did it for minors. But she recorded two different employees at the hospital on tape saying, oh yes, 16 year old, no problem, we can do that. And I got to say, not the corporate media. So Big Tech Bander, because she dared speak the truth and Then the corporate media, the Washington Post, wrote this absurd story where they said, well, yes, it's true the website said they were performing these surgeries on minors, and it's true that two different employees at the hospital said on tape they were performing these surgeries on minors. But it is nonetheless false, we assert, with no evidence whatsoever. Because these aren't the droids you're looking for. You're not allowed to be aware of this. It is, this is insane. And, and look, number one, these surgeries, if you're a guy chopping it off and then trying to build female genitalia, or if you're a girl ripping chunks of flesh off the arm and leg and trying to construct something that they think resembles male genitalia, good God. Number one, I mean, this is stuff out of a house of horrors. But number two, if you read the medical studies of the consequences of those surgeries, an enormous percentage of those surgeries require a second, a third, fourth, fifth surgery to correct it because you have all sorts of complications. You, you, you, you have infections, you, you, you have perforations. Look, it, it's, it's hard to discuss without getting really graphic, but, but you read stories of people who have this, this surgery have to use a coloscopy bag and, and, and crap in a bag for the rest of their lives for any person to, I think there are a great many of them who regret it almost instantly because it is the rest of their lives are devastated. And then to amplify it and to say a child, a child who is not yet mature, not yet able to rationally reason through the consequences, that if a 12 year old believes at that moment that he or she is not a he or she, that you should permanently chop it off or permanently sterilize and remove the uterus of, of that, that, that young child, that's utterly indefensible. It's one thing if an adult wants to make that decision, you got a right to do that if you're an adult. But the idea that 12 and 13 year olds should be doing it or minors at all, I think is completely indefensible.
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Michael Knowles
We have age of consent laws which state that a 16 or a 17 year old can't have a one night stand with, I don't know, a 19 or a 20 or 21 year old because their brains have just not formed enough, they're not in control of their rational faculties yet and so they can't consent to make those decisions. So on the one hand you have that enshrined in Law, on the other hand, forget a 16 year old, a 6 year old can consent not to a one time kind of sexual escapade, but a lifelong sexual decision that will have consequences well beyond even the question of sex and gender, but can give you osteoporosis, can give you bone damage, can give you infections, can put you on a lifelong regimen of expensive, very powerful drugs. To me this is so absurd. I don't see why, why lawmakers can't just ban this sort of thing outright. And since you're a lawmaker can, at least at the state level, can we get rid of this, can we ban this thing?
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Ted Cruz
Well look, Texas has moved to do that, but in places like California they want to celebrate it. And the media won't report on the downsides of this, that they want to silence it. And by the way, Big Tech is happy to silence it. Libs of TikTok was banned for telling the truth because truth. Let's go back to Karine Jean Pierre. Look, fascists silence their critics. That's what this White House does. And by the way, we, we have Mark Zuckerberg who told Joe Rogan, yeah, the FBI called and, and, and asked us not to, to allow people to talk about Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean you literally have the government engaging in silencing discussion that is contrary to their political narrative and their political partisan interests.
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Michael Knowles
Speaking of the wokeness in our various branches of government, I simply could not believe this story that I just read, which is that a division of the US Pacific Air Forces, which is the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered its senior leaders, this according to Washington Free Beacon and commanders to stop using gender pronouns in written formats, saying the shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting force's lethality. They say in accordance with the diverse PACAF priority, we must embrace, promote and unleash the potential. Unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion. So you've got to stop using the correct pronouns and call people zee and zim and zer and there. And that's gonna make our fighting forces more lethal. Am I reading the Babylon beast? Senator, is this our United States military?
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Ted Cruz
Look, Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing everything they can to damage and destroy the military. They've done it through things like vaccine mandates, trying to chase out. And then they fired vast numbers of soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines. And this is truly nutty when it comes to lethality. This is lethality right here. This is killing our military. And listen, the Chinese are training to defeat us and these weak appeasing numbskulls are trying to demonstrate how woke they are. And by the way, the definition of wokeness keeps changing. So last I checked, like 12 minutes ago, the most woke people had their genders in their Twitter profile. I'm, he, him, she, her, zer, whatever. Now the even more woke is. No, no, no, no, no. Don't have pronouns. Even if you say you're he, him, we will not say it. We will just refer to you as podcaster. That is all you are. You may not be he podcaster or she podcaster. Like it is. You're right. It could be Babylon B. I don't even know how you standardize this crap anymore, because it is so ridiculous. And I gotta tell you, I hear from active duty military all the time who are beyond frustrated by this garbage. And the problem is, it now extends up the chain of command because the way you get promoted in Joe Biden's Department of Defense is you embrace this idiocy and apparently no longer even know what a pronoun is.
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Michael Knowles
So is the only way that we solve this just winning in 2024? I remember when I saw that woke army ad whenever it was about a year ago, where it was an army recruitment ad, and the ad, it looked like it could have been, I don't know, a Procter and Gamble commercial from Pride Month. It was a cartoon about this girl and how her lesbian mothers at pride parades really taught her how to fight America's enemies or something like that. I mean, it was, again, sort of beyond satire. And I thought, by golly, this is the Army. This was one of the few institutions that conservative people hadn't totally lost to the left. So, okay, it's lost right now. The only way to fix it is just we've gotta get a Republican president in there to fire the top brass and bring some normal people back into military leadership.
- [27:26]
Ted Cruz
Yes. Look, the left has always hated the military. You have people like Bernie Sanders who always wanna slash the budget for the military and render us vulnerable. You have the Biden White House that believes every enemy on Earth, the way to deal with them is surrender to them. Show weakness, show appeasement. You know, Biden is right in the middle of trying to sign a ridiculous deal with Iran to give them billions of dollars that they will use to kill Americans and develop nuclear weapons, which could be used to kill millions of Americans. One of the ways they express their hatred for the military is by undermining it from within, by making it a political entity. And that is profoundly harmful. To the military. Listen, I don't want the military to be a Republican entity. I want the job of the military to be to defend this nation and be prepared to kill the enemy. That's their job. It's not to be on the vanguard of some political agenda on either side.
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Michael Knowles
Before we go, we do have to get to some mailbag because of our wonderful verdict plus subscribers Here's a question. It pertains to November and it's a little nitty gritty on the politics Baltimore Bill writes the National Republican Senatorial Committee NRSC canceled millions worth of ads across numerous battleground states. Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada. There are winnable races here which would tilt the balance of power back to the Republicans. Would Mitch McConnell really prefer Fetterman and Kelly, the Democrats in the Senate?
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Ted Cruz
So I certainly hope not. I think we have an excellent chance to take the House and I still think we have a very good chance to take the Senate. I put it at 60% or better to take the Senate. In terms of where we are, I do think the political environment is a little bit worse today than it was six weeks ago. Now the narrative everywhere in the media is oh, the tides have turned and now the Democrats are not going to get obliterated and the corporate media is desperately trying to push that narrative. I think that is vastly overstated. I think we're headed to a very good election still and I think we will see going into September and October additional momentum between now and election day. I am going to be on the road nonstop campaigning for Senate candidates across the country and for House candidates across the country. Cuz I think it's gonna be a big victory in November.
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Michael Knowles
I certainly hope it is. It's also worth pointing out as we're being told that the tides are turning and the Democrats are gonna do just fine. Yes, the Republicans had what, a 10 point lead on the generic ballot in July that narrowed to a five point lead. We're still pretty much exactly where the Democrats were in 2018 and it narrowed for the Democrats between August and November of and they still did great in those elections, in those midterm elections. So I just listen, you know it on the ground a lot better than I did. But I read the reports in the media and then I look at the actual numbers and I think these things don't match up.
- [30:33]
Ted Cruz
Yep. Well, the media wants Republicans, conservatives, people who are not insane. Because in many ways this is not even a left right battle. This is a sane insane battle. They want those who believe in common sense and reason and individual Liberty to be demoralized, to say we can't win, to stay home. That's how the Marxists prevail is they discourage people of good sense from that. They engage in voter suppression. And every story you read about how the Democrats are doing well is a deliberate, calculated effort at voter suppression from the corporate media.
- [31:14]
Michael Knowles
Yeah, one last question before we get out of here. That's not true. Two last questions. But they're both from the same guy. So it's a two parter. One, what does America first mean to you? And two, hard to choose. But what is the number one issue Ted Cruz is focusing on leading up to November? Both questions from verdict subscriber Steel Dino.
- [31:38]
Ted Cruz
So those are great questions. America first means a lot of things, but I think it means standing with the working men and women, women and defending the interest of the United States, protecting America in foreign policy. I gave a long speech, it's about 45 minutes long, at the America First Policy Institute entirely devoted to what does America first mean in foreign policy. I don't think it means what some people are trying to claim that it means, which is isolationism and withdrawing from the world. I think that is twisting what America first is about. It's certainly not what we did when Donald Trump was president. I think it means in the foreign policy context, putting the national security interest of the United States first and foremost, being willing to defeat our enemies, but not sending our sons and daughters into harm's way for amorphous global norms or to protect democracy or such other gobbledygook. But the job of the military is to protect Americans and keep us safe. On economic and domestic policy, I think it means standing with blue collar workers, standing with working men and women. That means things like securing the border and stopping unlimited illegal immigration. That means defending small businesses so there are lots of jobs that are plentiful. That, to me is America first as well. Which is. Which is the steelworkers and truck drivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and baristas who we stand for. And the Democrats crap in the coffee cup of baristas. That is America first to me.
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Michael Knowles
On that vivid note, there was a second question. Oh, thank goodness. Because I don't really want to end on that image that, albeit accurate, is quite, is quite disgusting. What do you think the top issue has to be that Republicans focus on going into the midterms.
- [33:42]
Ted Cruz
So on polling, the top three issues in the country are inflation, with gas prices being the most salient piece of that, then crime, and then the chaos on our southern border. Those are consistently the top three issues. I think we should focus on them front and center. In terms of my passions, I would say two things. Number one, sanity versus insanity, like the Marxist left is destroying America, destroying our values, tearing down our founders, tearing down our Constitution, tearing down our Bill of Rights. And so defending who we are as America, I think is foundational. And in terms of a policy issue, I think there's no domestic policy issue that matters more than school choice. And so I am deeply engaged in campaigning for candidates who support school choice, raising money for candidates who support school choice, campaigning to defeat candidates who oppose school choice, doing everything we can to stop the Randy Weingartens of the world who are responsible for inflicting enormous harm on children. And she cackles away with Joe Biden and the Democrats at the White House while the kids get left behind.
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Michael Knowles
Sounds just like a fascist. Given people more choices over their future and the future of their family. We got a regular Mussolini over here. At least as it goes into Joe Biden's sort of warped brain. There's obviously much more to talk about. You will be talking about much more on the cloakroom with our friend Liz Wheeler. Liz, what will you be talking about?
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Ted Cruz
Hi, Michael.
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Michael Knowles
Yes.
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Ted Cruz
And Senator. Great answer. And verdict plus, thank you for your great questions. I don't know if you guys realize, but I'm sitting here thinking how on earth do I segue from poo poo in a cup into what we're talking about on cloakroom. This is what you give me every week, except for verdict fans who give questions that give me a little easier time. So this is what's called a hard segue over on the cloakroom. Today we're gonna talk about what happened in Alaska. Republicans lost a seat in the House of Representatives because of ranked choice voting in the Alaska special election, which means the Democrat actually only won 40% of the vote. The Republicans won 60% of the vote. Yet somehow the Democrat is the one that's going to Washington D.C. to represent the people of Alaska. We're gonna talk about how that happened and just the structure of the whole ranked choice voting and why it's a bad thing. You can join us on the cloakroom. It's Verdict with Ted Cruz.com rank/verdict with TedCruz.com+ if you use my promo code, cloakroom, then you can watch for free for the first month of your annual subscription. That's Verdict with TedCruz.com/plus.
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Michael Knowles
I really, really want to listen to that discussion because the idea that a Democrat is gonna go represent Alaska is really upsetting. Usually when Alaska sends Democrats to Congress, they at least pretend to be Republicans. So that'll be a great. If you want to hear some of these discussions, not just through your phone or your computer. If you want to hear them live, well, you gotta go check out Verdict live. We are beginning another campus tour. We could be coming to a campus near you. How do you make that happen? Well, you submit your school for consideration at yaf.org verdict we've been to some super lib schools. We've been to to some very conservative schools. We've been in the north and in the south and everywhere in between. We look forward to coming to a school near you. Make sure you submit your campus ASAP. Time is running out. YAF.org verdict until then, I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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Ted Cruz
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