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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2018 an online video ad
Says Beto O’Rourke "voted against" Hurricane Harvey "tax relief."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 3, 2018 a video ad made public by the Texas Tribune
Says Beto O’Rourke is "open to abolishing ICE."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 6, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 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."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 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."
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By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 30, 2016 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."  
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By Chris Nichols • May 3, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 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."  
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By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 10, 2016 the Republican debate in Miami
"I opposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and have always opposed TPP."  
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By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 18, 2016 a campaign ad
Says Donald Trump "wants to keep big government in charge" of federally-owned land.
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By Riley Snyder • February 23, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 21, 2016 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.
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By Linda Qiu • February 21, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 the Fox Business Network debate
"We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 17, 2015 a radio interview.
Forty percent of illegal immigrants are "people coming legally on visas and overstaying their visas."
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By Warren Fiske • December 28, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 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."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 16, 2015 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."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 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."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."  
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By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 an interview with Fox News
"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."
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By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 26, 2014 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."
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By Katie Sanders • January 26, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 10, 2014 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."
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By Sue Owen • January 16, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 23, 2012 a Republican U.S. Senate debate in Houston
Says David Dewhurst "explicitly advocated" a guest worker program for all illegal immigrants.
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By Sue Owen • July 26, 2012
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