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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 19, 2025 an X post
Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Loreben Tuquero • October 20, 2025
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 30, 2023 A post on X.
"(President Joe) Biden is trying to limit you to two beers per week.”
False
By Sarah Bahari • September 1, 2023
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 4, 2022 a tweet
"The impact of President Biden being beholden to the Green New Deal radicals in his party has electricity costs through the roof in Texas."
False
By Nusaiba Mizan • June 21, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 24, 2022 remarks to the media
“We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus.”
False
By Madison Czopek • May 26, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 4, 2021 an interview
“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 policies are "endangering not just the people of Texas, but people all across the country."
False
By Brandon Mulder • September 3, 2021
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 13, 2021 an interview
"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 business."
False
By Brandon Mulder • July 16, 2021
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2021 a press conference
“You didn't see Republicans when we had control of the Senate try to rig the game.”
False
By Brandon Mulder, Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2021
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 5, 2020 a Fox News interview
Philadelphia is “clouding the vote counting in a shroud of darkness.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • November 6, 2020
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2020 an interview
Says Trump “didn’t campaign on cutting the debt” … “That’s not what he promised to do.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • October 30, 2020
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 24, 2020 a speech
Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • February 27, 2020
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 8, 2019 a TV interview
"Ukraine blatantly interfered in our election."
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • December 12, 2019
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 4, 2018 a video
Says Beto O’Rourke said he’s grateful that people are burning or desecrating the American flag.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 17, 2018 a campaign press release
Says Beto O’Rourke is "the only candidate to the U.S. Senate to call for" impeaching President Donald Trump.  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 25, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 4, 2018 an interview
Says "Rosie O’Donnell apparently committed the same offense five times, five times, when she broke the identical law that Dinesh (D'Souza) was prosecuted for."
False
By Manuela Tobias • June 6, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2018 a tweet
Says Beto O’Rourke had a "resolution to legalize all narcotics--including heroin and other deadly opioids."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2018 an audio ad distributed to news organizations
Says Beto O’Rourke wants "open borders and wants to take our guns."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2016 responding to an audience member's question at the Texas Tribune Festival.
Hillary Clinton "supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 9, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 8, 2016 Senate floor remarks
"If Congress fails to act, the Obama administration intends to give away control of the internet to an international body akin to the United Nations."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 21, 2016 an online campaign ad
Says Donald Trump "has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president."
False
By Dylan Baddour • May 27, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview on CNN
"Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because the United States of America" said it would "ensure (its) territorial integrity from Russia."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 2016
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