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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 17, 2023 a speech at the Hudson Institute
Barack Obama said that Iran has a “right” to nuclear technology, including weapons.
Mostly False
By Sarah Bahari • June 13, 2023
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 27, 2022 a tweet
Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 9, 2021 a tweet
Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”
Mostly False
By Landon Allison, Julia Schneider • February 18, 2021
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 6, 2021 a speech on the Senate floor
“39% of Americans … 31% of independents ... 17% of Democrats believe the election was rigged."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • January 6, 2021
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 21, 2019 a press release
"As you know, we apprehended over 144,000 people in a single month. That is a pace, which if it continues for 12 months, would put us on a pace for nearly 2 million apprehensions on the border."
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 27, 2019
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 16, 2018 During a debate in San Antonio
Says Beto O'Rourke "voted in favor of a $10 a barrel tax on every barrel of oil produced in the state of Texas."
Mostly False
By Johnathan Silver • October 19, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 28, 2018 a debate
California "is hemorrhaging population."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • September 28, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2018 a debate at Southern Methodist University
Says Beto O’Rourke described police as "modern-day Jim Crow."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 11, 2018 an interview aired on "Think," produced by KERA radio in Dallas
"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 7, 2018 an interview on CNN's "New Day"
"The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 Fox News interview
"The Democrats filibustered the legislation that would’ve resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that Texas church."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • November 10, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2017 an MSNBC interview
"Two-thirds of the (Hurricane Sandy relief) bill had nothing to do with Sandy."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally for a Colorado U.S. Senate nominee
"There is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices."
Mostly False
By Bobby Cervantes • November 23, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 14, 2016 his speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention
Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."  
Mostly False
By Eleanor Dearman • June 26, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say Planned Parenthood is "terrific and that it should keep taxpayer funding." 
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 1, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 an attack ad
Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 11, 2016 a campaign speech
"The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • April 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 7, 2016 an interview on CNN
"Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 11, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 30, 2016 a CNN town hall in Milwaukee
"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2016
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