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Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.

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Latest Fact-Checks Of Ted Cruz

Does Texas really outproduce California in wind energy? Yes
By Sarah Bahari
November 14, 2023

“We produce a lot more wind energy in Texas than California does.”

Is Joe Biden trying to limit how much beer you can drink? No. Ted Cruz is wrong.
By Sarah Bahari
September 1, 2023

"(President Joe) Biden is trying to limit you to two beers per week.”

Ted Cruz: Obama said Iran has a ‘right’ to nuclear weapons. Not quite
By Sarah Bahari
June 13, 2023

Barack Obama said that Iran has a “right” to nuclear technology, including weapons.

Ted Cruz’s misleading claim that only Democratic cities take days to count votes
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman
October 28, 2022

Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”

High electricity costs tied to price of natural gas, not Green New Deal
By Nusaiba Mizan
June 21, 2022

"The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas."

Ted Cruz spins partisan blame for failure of gun legislation
By Louis Jacobson
May 27, 2022

In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted…

Research: Armed campus police do not prevent school shootings
By Madison Czopek
May 26, 2022

“We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus.”

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By Nusaiba Mizan
February 28, 2022

"In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world."

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By Brandon Mulder
September 3, 2021

“In the last several months, the Biden administration has released over 7,000 illegal aliens who were COVID positive just in one Texas city.” Biden's border…

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By Brandon Mulder
July 16, 2021

"There is clear legal authority to handcuff and put in leg irons legislators that are trying to stop the legislature from being able to do…

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