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Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2018 in an online video ad:

Says Beto O’Rourke "voted against" Hurricane Harvey "tax relief."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2018

Ted Cruz
stated on August 3, 2018 in a video ad made public by the Texas Tribune:

Says Beto O’Rourke is "open to abolishing ICE."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 6, 2018

Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 in an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News:

"In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017

Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 in an interview on ABC's This Week:

"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."

By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 30, 2016 in a speech at the California Republican Party Convention:

"Here in California, Donald Trump has given $12,000 to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris."

By Chris Nichols • May 3, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 in ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz:

Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."

By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 10, 2016 in the Republican debate in Miami:

"I opposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and have always opposed TPP."

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 18, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Says Donald Trump "wants to keep big government in charge" of federally-owned land.

By Riley Snyder • February 23, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 21, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.

By Linda Qiu • February 21, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 in the Fox Business Network debate:

"We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on December 17, 2015 in a radio interview.:

Forty percent of illegal immigrants are "people coming legally on visas and overstaying their visas."

By Warren Fiske • December 28, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 in a Houston press conference:

My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 16, 2015 in comments during the CNN debate:

"A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty."

By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 in speaking to reporters in Iowa:

"It has been the law since the beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born ... abroad are American citizens by birth."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."

By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."

By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 in an interview with Fox News:

"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."

By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on January 26, 2014 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

Under President Barack Obama, "We’ve got the lowest labor force participation in over three decades, since 1978."

By Katie Sanders • January 26, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on January 10, 2014 in a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum:

Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury."

By Sue Owen • January 16, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on July 23, 2012 in a Republican U.S. Senate debate in Houston:

Says David Dewhurst "explicitly advocated" a guest worker program for all illegal immigrants.

By Sue Owen • July 26, 2012

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