Just after the Senate voted unanimously to approve the largest stimulus package in the history of the country Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles for another late-night edition of “VERDICT” to break down how the bill finally got passed and what it means for the American people.
&#8220;The vote was unanimous, 96 to nothing,&#8221; Cruz said at the start of the episode. &#8220;Every single Republican voted yes, every single Democrat voted yes, and we just passed out a $2 trillion emergency relief package — which hopefully will have significant effect relieving the economic devastation being caused by this corona crisis.&#8221;
Asked about why the bill had to be passed by the Senate so late in the week, when it was supposed to be voted on over the weekend, Cruz responded, “Well, that’s an easy answer. It’s two people: it’s Nancy Pelosi and it’s Chuck Schumer.”
“Everybody thought we were going to vote on this Sunday night,&#8221; the senator explained. &#8220;[A]bout a dozen Democrats were part of the negotiating teams — they had all been active, engaged. And we thought we were going to take it up Sunday and get it passed.&#8221;
Then, said Cruz, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi &#8220;came in at the last minute and she threw a hand grenade in. She began making all of these completely unrelated, partisan demands.&#8221;
When the senators showed up Sunday night, &#8220;every single Democrat voted to block our getting on the bill, our even starting to consider it.&#8221;
&#8220;So they blocked it on Sunday night, they blocked it Monday, all day Tuesday, all day today until about 11 o’clock [Wednesday] night when we got it passed,&#8221; he explained.
Asked if the Democrats achieved anything by stalling the vote for their non-crisis-related demands, Cruz said, it’s “complicated,” but that most of the partisan demands are gone.
“Most of the extraneous partisan issues that Pelosi was fighting for, almost all of them have dropped out of the bill. So that’s good,” he said. “What she held everything hostage for Sunday and Monday and Tuesday is mostly gone.”
“Two trillion dollars is a crap ton of money,” Cruz underscored. “That’s 10% of our national debt — not of our deficit, 10% of our national debt. In over two centuries, we just spent 10% of it tonight… It’s worth pausing to think that was unanimous. That means Bernie Sanders voted for it, I voted for it, everybody in between voted for it. And what I would say is the reason is: these are not normal times.”
&#8220;This crisis is extraordinary,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The health crisis is extraordinary. People are scared. We’ve got a global pandemic. But not only the health crisis, but the response to the health crisis has created an economic disaster that is unfolding. There are millions of people losing their jobs. And in response to that devastation, everyone feels an urgency to provide relief.&#8221;
Cruz then noted that he does not refer to the $2.2 trillion package as a &#8220;stimulus bill,&#8221; but rather a &#8220;relief bill.&#8221; &#8220;It’s quite different,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is designed to provide relief to people who are hurting badly — and are hurting through not fault of their own, they didn’t do anything to cause this.&#8221;
Cruz then unpacked what exactly is in the “monstrous bill,” including “individual relief”: Every American who makes under $100,000 a year will get a check from the federal government within two to three weeks ($1,200 per individual adult, $2,400 per for couples, and $500 per child).
Another major piece of the bill is $377 billion dedicated to help small businesses (most businesses with 500 employees or less) through emergency loans. These businesses can go and apply at local banks to receive a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan of up to $10 million. If the business uses the money for payroll, the loan obligation is forgiven.
“’That’s a direct lifeline to these small businesses that are profoundly hurting,” said Cruz.
Watch the full episode below or listen to it on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-20-whats-actually-in-the-senate-relief-bill/id1495601614?i=1000469566745">Apple Podcasts here</a>:
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WATCH: Ted Cruz Explains How The $2 Trillion Relief Bill Got Passed And What It Means For Americans

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) unloaded on Senate Democrats on Monday for continuing to play partisan games in trying to reach an agreement for a massive stimulus bill to provide relief to American families and the economy.
It had looked like the two sides were going to come to an agreement on Sunday to move the proposed $1.8 trillion stimulus bill along in the process until Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrats-block-coronavirus-bill-that-provides-lifeline-to-economy-families">ruined</a> talks.
&#8220;It was one party — the Democratic Party saying to this chamber and the American people, ‘Hell no. We won&#8217;t even take this up and discuss it,’&#8221; Cruz said on the Senate floor. &#8220;At a time of crisis, at a time when people are dying, that&#8217;s wrong. That&#8217;s shameful.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;When we awakened this morning following the Democrats&#8217; obstruction, worldwide, there were 372,563 reported cases of the coronavirus. In the hours since then, just today, there have been an additional 23,352 cases reported today. While the Democrats are blocking the bill 23,000 new cases today.&#8221;
&#8220;In the United States, when we started this morning, there were 35,224 cases this morning. Right now, as of the latest numbers, there are 41,708 cases in the United States today,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;That means we&#8217;ve had an additional 6,484 four cases today, while the Democrats are blockading.&#8221;
Cruz noted that Senate Democrats were not even in the chamber as he talked because they had all left.
&#8220;They&#8217;re not showing up for work,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;They&#8217;re not doing their job.&#8221;
&#8220;In the United States, as of this morning, there were 471 deaths reported due to coronavirus. As of right now it&#8217;s 573,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;That means today 102 Americans died while the Democrats were blocking consideration of this bill.&#8221;
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Just today, while Democrats obstructed efforts to deliver more relief to the American people, There were at least 6,484 new cases in the US. There were at least 102 deaths in the US. There was another death in TX.
Our nation does not have time for Dems’ petty partisan games. <a href="https://t.co/8RWLfErK5H">pic.twitter.com/8RWLfErK5H</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1242269852494159874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>The New York Times headline moments afterwards said, ‘Democrats block $1.7 trillion stimulus bill.’ Of course that headline had the fault of being accurate and so within minutes the New York Times changed it to ‘Democrats block $1.7 trillion stimulus bill, citing worker concerns.’ That was headline number two. But then apparently the partisan leanings in the New York Times were too strong for that, and so they revised it a third time to say, ‘Partisan division halts discussion of the bill.’
No, it wasn&#8217;t a partisan division. It was one party &#8211; the Democratic Party saying to this chamber and the American people, ‘Hell no. We won&#8217;t even take this up and discuss it.’ At a time of crisis, at a time when people are dying, that&#8217;s wrong. That&#8217;s shameful.
When we awakened this morning following the Democrats&#8217; obstruction, worldwide, there were 372,563 reported cases of the coronavirus. In the hours since then, just today, there have been an additional 23,352 cases reported today. While the Democrats are blocking the bill 23,000 new cases today.
In the United States, when we started this morning, there were 35,224 cases this morning. Right now, as of the latest numbers, there are 41,708 cases in the United States today. That means we&#8217;ve had an additional 6,484 four cases today, while the Democrats are blockading.
And by the way where are the Democrats? C-Span doesn&#8217;t show this whole chamber often, but it&#8217;d be nice if they did because that entire side of the chamber is empty. They&#8217;re not showing up for work. They&#8217;re not doing their job.
In Texas this morning, there had been 668 cases. As of right now, there are 722 &#8212; 54 more cases today while the Democrats are blocking consideration of this bill.
How about deaths? As we look at this crisis, there are people right now gasping for breath. You and I, we have friends who have been diagnosed with this disease. We’ve read stories, we’ve talked to people who have struggled under it.
I heard from one individual, who is hospitalized right now, that breathing felt like a belt strapped across his chest. That he could barely breathe.
As of [now], worldwide, there have been 16,381 deaths. This morning it was only 15,308. That means today, while the Democrats have been blocking this bill, 1,073 additional people died.
In the United States, as of this morning, there were 471 deaths reported due to coronavirus. As of right now it&#8217;s 573. That means today 102 Americans died while the Democrats were blocking consideration of this bill.
In Texas, as of this morning, there had been eight deaths. Now there are nine. One Texan died while half this chamber refused to show up and do their job.
Now this morning when we voted again, we saw the first signs of cracks as one Democrat, Senator from Alabama, who had voted ‘no’ yesterday decided this morning, ‘well, maybe we should take up the bill.’ One. One Democrat. Where are the rest? There are a lot of Democrats who like to hold themselves out as moderate Democrats. Where are they?
Right now what the Democratic leadership is doing is they&#8217;re playing games. They&#8217;re playing games in a way that is irresponsible.
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Senate Holds Hearing On Role Of Aviation In Containing Spread Of Infectious Disease

Cruz Highlights How Many Americans Have Died Today While Democrats Block Spending Bill

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is currently in <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/487418-ted-cruz-extending-self-quarantine-after-second-coronavirus-interaction">self-isolation</a> after he interacted with someone with coronavirus, commended the mitigation advice that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted Saturday morning on Twitter.
“To everyone in NYC but ESPECIALLY healthy people &amp; people under 40 (bc from what I’m observing that’s who needs to hear this again,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “PLEASE stop crowding bars, restaurants, and public spaces right now. Eat your meals at home. If you are healthy, you could be spreading COVID.”
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To everyone in NYC but ESPECIALLY healthy people &amp; people under 40 (bc from what I’m observing that’s who needs to hear this again):
PLEASE stop crowding bars, restaurants, and public spaces right now. Eat your meals at home.
If you are healthy, you could be spreading COVID.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1238860728565747714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
In a response message, Cruz commended AOC’s tweet, and emphasized the importance of taking precautions to stop the spread of coronavirus: “Good advice — not just for NYC, but everywhere. If you can stay home, stay home. And wash your hands.”
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Good advice — not just for NYC, but everywhere.
If you can stay home, stay home.
And wash your hands. <a href="https://t.co/WOcTclI7Ki">https://t.co/WOcTclI7Ki</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1238957310787170307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams chimed in on Cruz’s response to the Democratic congresswoman, saying that it shows the importance of coming together to address the health crisis directly.
“Two people who don’t agree on much, coming together to promote health and safety,” said Adams. “I love our country and know we can do this. Now is the time to spend as much of our energy as possible helping people understand how to protect themselves and each other.”
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I ❤️ this 👇🏽
Two people who don’t agree on much, coming together to promote health and safety.
I love our country and know we can do this. Now is the time to spend as much of our energy as possible helping people understand how to protect themselves and each other! <a href="https://t.co/sCJGhjmRF7">https://t.co/sCJGhjmRF7</a>
— U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) <a href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1238970992900419589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), who is currently in the coronavirus’ European epicenter of Italy, published an op-ed in <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/newt-gingrich-i-am-italy-amid-coronavirus-crisis-america-must-act-now-act-big-opinion-1492270">Newsweek</a> on Friday encouraging Americans to take precautions against the coronavirus, and advised that Italy’s decision to effectively quarantine itself entirely was not an over-reaction.
<blockquote>The hardest-hit region around Milan has had to improvise as its health system has been deeply stressed by the sheer number of patients. In Milan and Brescia, field hospitals have been set up in the fairgrounds as the local hospitals have been drowned in patients.
Because the demand for respirators and intensive care has been beyond any previous planning, doctors have been forced into the kind of triage thinking developed for intense battlefield casualty situations. There are reports that emergency room doctors are allotting respirators to those with higher life expectancy due to the limited equipment in the hardest hit areas of the province. If you are older or have other illnesses, you may simply not be eligible for treatment.</blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-update-young-people-hospital-luca-lorini-bergamo-a9402531.html">The Independent</a>, Italian doctors have begun seeing more patients under the age of 50 requiring hospitalization.
“People are arriving who got ill six or seven days ago and treated themselves at home – and then their condition became more and more critical,” said Dr. Luca Lorini, the head of anesthesia at a hospital in northern Italy, reports the news agency.
As of Saturday evening, Italy had a total of 21,157 diagnosed cases of coronavirus, approximately 3,500 of which were diagnosed in the last 24 hours alone, reports the <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/about-3-500-new-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-italy-in-24-hour-span">Associated Press</a>.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html">The New York Times</a>, the United States has had 2,443 people diagnosed with coronavirus across 49 states, and the number is only expected to grow.

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Ted Cruz Commends AOC’s Coronavirus Tweet As ‘Good Advice,’ Receives Praise From Surgeon General

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released a new statement about his decision to self-quarantine after coming into contact with someone who was infected with the coronavirus, saying that he is continuing to do well.
&#8220;Sen. Cruz feels great, has not exhibited any symptoms of the coronavirus in the last 11 days, and is not currently experiencing any symptoms,&#8221; a Cruz spokesperson said in a statement. &#8220;Sen. Cruz&#8217;s own decision to stay at home in Texas this week &#8211; until a full 14 days have passed since the interaction on February 27 &#8211; was made out of an abundance of caution and to give everyone peace of mind, not because it was medically recommended.&#8221;
&#8220;Importantly, medical authorities assured Sen. Cruz that anyone who has interacted with him over the last 11 days should not be concerned about potential transmission and they do not require any special treatment, including self-quarantine,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;As such, Sen. Cruz&#8217;s staff is following the recommendations of these medical authorities in response to this interaction.&#8221;
The update concluded, &#8220;The office is open, continuing operations, and taking all necessary precautions to ensure their own health and wellness, as well as the health and wellness of our family members, our constituents, our colleagues in Congress, and everyone around us.&#8221;
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NEW STATEMENT: Sen. Cruz feels great, has not exhibited any symptoms of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> in the last 11 days, and is not currently experiencing any symptoms. <a href="https://t.co/lNwViKdAew">pic.twitter.com/lNwViKdAew</a>
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The announcement comes after Cruz revealed on Sunday that he had come into contact with someone at CPAC who had tested positive for the coronavirus, which originated in China.
As a result of that contact, Cruz announced that although the interaction was 10 days ago that he would self-quarantine for the next four days at his home in Texas out of an abundance of caution.
&#8220;Last night, I was informed that 10 days ago at CPAC I briefly interacted with an individual who is currently symptomatic and has tested positive for COVID-19. That interaction consisted of a brief conversation and a handshake,&#8221; Cruz said on Sunday. &#8220;I&#8217;m not experiencing any symptoms, and I feel fine and healthy. Given that the interaction was 10 days ago, that the average incubation period is 5-6 days, that the interaction was for less than a minute, and that I have no current symptoms, the medical authorities have advised me that the odds of transmission from the other individual to me were extremely low.&#8221;
&#8220;The physicians further advised that testing is not effective before symptoms manifest, and my brief interaction with the individual does not meet the CDC criteria for self-quarantine,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;The medical authorities explicitly advised me that, given the above criteria, the people who have interacted with me in the 10 days since CPAC should not be concerned about potential transmission.&#8221;
&#8220;Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, and because of how frequently I interact with my constituents as a part of my job and to give everyone peace of mind, I have decided to remain at my home in Texas this week, until a full 14 days have passed since the CPAC interaction,&#8221; Cruz concluded. &#8220;Everyone should continue to treat this outbreak seriously and be driven by facts and medical science. We need to continue to be proactive in mobilizing resources to combat this outbreak-including the $8.3 billion in emergency funding we provided last week-and I encourage everyone to follow the recommendations of the CDC and other health professionals in protecting their own health and welfare, as well as the health and welfare of those around them.&#8221;

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Ted Cruz Gives Update On His Self-Quarantine Over Coronavirus Precautions

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced on Sunday that he would undergo a very brief self-quarantine at his home in Texas after coming into contact with a person at CPAC who was infected with the coronavirus, which originated in China.
Cruz said that the decision was made after he consulted medical authorities from the Houston Health Department, the Harris County Public Health Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services, and his personal physician.
&#8220;Last night, I was informed that 10 days ago at CPAC I briefly interacted with an individual who is currently symptomatic and has tested positive for COVID-19,&#8221; Cruz said in a statement. &#8220;That interaction consisted of a brief conversation and a handshake.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not experiencing any symptoms, and I feel fine and healthy,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;Given that the interaction was 10 days ago, that the average incubation period is 5-6 days, that the interaction was for less than a minute, and that I have no current symptoms, the medical authorities have advised me that the odds of transmission from the other individual to me were extremely low.”
Because the interaction was 10 days ago, Cruz said that he will self-quarantine for four more days to see if any symptoms arise.
&#8220;The physicians further advised that testing is not effective before symptoms manifest, and my brief interaction with the individual does not meet the CDC criteria for self-quarantine,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;The medical authorities explicitly advised me that, given the above criteria, the people who have interacted with me in the 10 days since CPAC should not be concerned about potential transmission.”
&#8220;Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, and because of how frequently I interact with my constituents as a part of my job and to give everyone peace of mind, I have decided to remain at my home in Texas this week, until a full 14 days have passed since the CPAC interaction,&#8221; Cruz concluded. &#8220;Everyone should continue to treat this outbreak seriously and be driven by facts and medical science. We need to continue to be proactive in mobilizing resources to combat this outbreak – including the $8.3 billion in emergency funding we provided last week – and I encourage everyone to follow the recommendations of the CDC and other health professionals in protecting their own health and welfare, as well as the health and welfare of those around them.&#8221;

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Ted Cruz To Undergo Brief Self-Quarantine At Home After Contact With Coronavirus Infected Person

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s (D-NY) threat directed at Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh at an abortion activist rally Wednesday sparked a firestorm, with public figures from all ends of the political spectrum weighing in, including left-leaning lawyers, leftist media personalities, and liberal entities. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who joined Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump in condemning Schumer&#8217;s comments, offered some commentary Wednesday to the left&#8217;s reaction to the Democratic senator&#8217;s alarming comments.
&#8220;Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they’re taking away fundamental rights,&#8221; Schumer said at a Center for Reproductive Rights-hosted event Wednesday in front of the nation&#8217;s highest court. &#8220;I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.&#8221;
In a rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts issued a statement condemning the &#8220;not only inappropriate&#8221; but &#8220;dangerous&#8221; comments, as did President Trump, who called for &#8220;serious&#8221; action against Schumer.
Cruz was one of many Republican lawmakers to condemn Schumer&#8217;s threat on Wednesday. &#8220;Disgraceful political attack on the Supreme Court &amp; the rule of law,&#8221; the Harvard Law-educated senator wrote in a tweet that included the viral clip of Schumer&#8217;s comments (posts below). &#8220;This attempt at judicial intimidation is not OK. [Sen. Schumer] should be ashamed. He should retract. And he should apologize.&#8221;
Cruz also highlighted left-leaning law professor Laurence Tribe&#8217;s rebuke of Schumer. &#8220;These remarks by [Sen. Schumer] were inexcusable,&#8221; Tribe tweeted. &#8220;Chief Justice Roberts was right to call him on his comments. I hope the Senator, whom I’ve long admired and consider a friend, apologizes and takes back his implicit threat. It’s beneath him and his office.&#8221;
&#8220;[Laurence Tribe] is exactly right. (!!)&#8221; Cruz responded. &#8220;The attempt by [Sen. Schumer] at judicial intimidation—a threat of political retaliation, or worse—is wrong &amp; profoundly dangerous. Politics are one thing; trying to politicize &amp; destroy the Supreme Court is altogether different.&#8221;
Cruz pointed out another left-leaning response, this time from MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes, who admitted after initially downplaying Schumer&#8217;s comments that they were completely &#8220;out of line.&#8221;
&#8220;Having watched the Schumer clip a few times, it really was out of line! Not just for norms reasons (though I think those matter) but also because idle threats are dumb and expose impotence,&#8221; Hayes tweeted. &#8220;Also the intelligence community stuff was weird and bad too.&#8221;
Cruz offered a one-word response to Hayes&#8217; admission: &#8220;Wow.&#8221;
The American Bar Association also issued a statement about Schumer&#8217;s comments, stating Wednesday that it found the senator&#8217;s threat &#8220;deeply troubling.&#8221; &#8220;Personal attacks on judges by any elected officials, including the president, are simply inappropriate,&#8221; read the ABA&#8217;s statement, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aba-deeply-troubled-by-schumers-supreme-court-comments">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Such comments challenge the reputation of the third, co-equal branch of our government; the independence of the judiciary; and the personal safety of judicial officers. They are never acceptable.&#8221;
In response, Cruz offered a journalistic aphorism: &#8220;Man bites dog.&#8221;
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WATCH this: Disgraceful political attack on the Supreme Court &amp; the rule of law. This attempt at judicial intimidation is not OK. <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> should be ashamed. He should retract. And he should apologize. <a href="https://t.co/SFvr1Q1y8m">https://t.co/SFvr1Q1y8m</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1235425548735836160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/tribelaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tribelaw</a> is exactly right. (!!) The attempt by <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> at judicial intimidation—a threat of political retaliation, or worse—is wrong &amp; profoundly dangerous. Politics are one thing; trying to politicize &amp; destroy the Supreme Court is altogether different. <a href="https://t.co/pcRz5FnnKA">https://t.co/pcRz5FnnKA</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1235422308971483138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Extraordinary. And exactly right. <a href="https://t.co/UDMHY1lkhQ">https://t.co/UDMHY1lkhQ</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1235424410250559488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wow. <a href="https://t.co/yUd04RmFrC">https://t.co/yUd04RmFrC</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1235427902830895109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Man bites dog. <a href="https://t.co/dr88WoQqbt">https://t.co/dr88WoQqbt</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1235443812551536640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ted Cruz Weighs In On Left-Wing Responses To Schumer’s Threat Against Justices

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When President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Vice President Mike Pence would be assisting in overseeing the response to the Coronavirus, far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rifled off tweets ridiculing Pence for &#8220;literally&#8221; not believing &#8220;in science.&#8221;
&#8220;Mike Pence literally does not believe in science,&#8221; hurled Ocasio-Cortez via Twitter. &#8220;It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.&#8221;
&#8220;This decision could cost people their lives,&#8221; fear-mongered AOC. &#8220;Pence’s past decisions already have.&#8221;
The congresswomen blamed an HIV outbreak in Indiana on the VP and blasted: &#8220;He is not a medical doctor. He is not a health expert. He is not qualified nor positioned in any way to protect our public health.&#8221;
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As governor, Pence’s science denial contributed to one of the worst HIV outbreaks in Indiana’s history.
He is not a medical doctor. He is not a health expert. He is not qualified nor positioned in any way to protect our public health. <a href="https://t.co/1jVY44p2HF">https://t.co/1jVY44p2HF</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1232841137930559490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz took issue with AOC&#8217;s &#8220;anti-science&#8221; smear, particularly over the elected Democrat&#8217;s views on things like sex, gender, and life. For example, AOC supports policies which suggest biological men who identify as women are female and living unborn humans are not living unborn humans.
&#8220;As you are speaking as the oracle of science, tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome?&#8221; blasted the senator.
With regard to abortion, Cruz added: &#8220;And at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?&#8221;
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2/x And at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233131075184078851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Republican then took a shot at AOC for continuously blasting the Trump administration with regard to her climate change hysterics: &#8220;And, of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?&#8221;
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3/x And, of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233131572553011200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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AOC responded to Cruz on Friday morning, though she side-stepped the issues of abortion and transgenderism highlighted by the senator, instead boasting of her credentials.
&#8220;Sen. Cruz, while I understand you judge people’s intelligence by the lowest income they’ve had, I hold awards from MIT Lincoln Lab &amp;others for accomplishments in microbiology,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;Secondly, I’m surprised you’re asking about chromosomes given that you don’t even believe in evolution.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez signed off:
<blockquote>Sincerely, an Intel global finalist, a fmr multi-year intern for Sen. Kennedy, a cum laude dual major in Economics &amp; International Relations, a fmr Educational Director for national organization, Who to you is “just a bartender,” And also your colleague.</blockquote>
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Sincerely, an Intel global finalist, a fmr multi-year intern for Sen. Kennedy, a cum laude dual major in Economics &amp; International Relations, a fmr Educational Director for national organization, Who to you is “just a bartender,” And also your colleague.<a href="https://t.co/9ktAgXFXDE">https://t.co/9ktAgXFXDE</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1233414601041207296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We see evolution every day: the Dem party is rapidly evolving into an angry, anti-science socialist ideology,&#8221; Cruz snarked in response. &#8220;You insulted Pence &amp; I asked you 3 real Qs re science. You ignored all 3 &amp; responded w/ your resume &amp; ad hominem attacks. Instead of insults, address the substance.&#8221;
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We see evolution every day: the Dem party is rapidly evolving into an angry, anti-science socialist ideology. You insulted Pence &amp; I asked you 3 real Qs re science. You ignored all 3 &amp; responded w/ your resume &amp; ad hominem attacks. Instead of insults, address the substance. <a href="https://t.co/QhyqRJOrii">https://t.co/QhyqRJOrii</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233477001169821700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Attempting to get a real answer from the representative, Cruz again listed his questions:
<blockquote>To reprise, science Q1 was “tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome?”
Science Q2 was “at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?”
And Science Q3 was “of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?”</blockquote>
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3/x Science Q2 was “at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?”
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233477568453586947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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4/x And Science Q3 was “of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?”
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233477875107495936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Closing the thread, Cruz said he awaited AOC&#8217;s &#8220;engagement on the actual substance, as a colleague as you noted, hopefully without the insults.&#8221;
&#8220;Btw, congrats on the science fair,&#8221; the senator ended the exchange, quote-tweeting AOC&#8217;s list of her own accomplishments.
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Btw, congrats on the science fair. <a href="https://t.co/F1hDE4fKkG">https://t.co/F1hDE4fKkG</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233481220572504069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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AOC Rips Pence As ‘Anti-Science.’ Cruz: What’s A Y Chromosome?

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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) compared left-leaning Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to an &#8220;arsonist&#8221; and turned her complaint against her fellow justices on its head.
On Friday night, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-scotus-pick-sotomayor-accuses-conservative-justices-of-trump-bias">ruled</a> 5-4 in favor of the Trump administration&#8217;s request for an emergency stay on a lower court&#8217;s nationwide injunction against its “public charge” rule — which bans non-citizens from receiving a green card if the government believes those non-citizens would rely on public assistance — while the administration appeals the injunction.
In her dissenting opinion on the ruling, Sotomayor attacked the five justices on the court who ruled in favor of the Trump administration.  The justices, Sotomayor strongly suggested in the scathing dissent, have demonstrated bias for the Trump administration rather than a commitment to upholding the Constitution.
&#8220;[T]he Court’s recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others,&#8221; she wrote suggestively.
&#8220;It is hard to say what is more troubling, that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it,&#8221; Sotomayor opined.
Cruz, a Harvard-educated constitutional lawyer, addressed Sotomayor&#8217;s widely reported complaint against her fellow justices during a hearing on courts&#8217; use of such nationwide injunctions on Tuesday.
&#8220;I read it a little bit like an arsonist complaining about the noise from the fire trucks,&#8221; Cruz said of Sotomayor&#8217;s minority opinion, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-scorches-sotomayor-over-court-critique-turns-tables-on-her-dissent">Fox News</a>.
The progressive justice, Cruz suggested, has the whole problem backwards. The issue is not that the Trump administration is requesting emergency stays on lower court&#8217;s injunctions, or that the Supreme Court is granting those stays. The problem is that activist judges in lower courts are excessively blocking Trump administration policies.
“If you look to the facts of what’s happening with nationwide injunctions, I think it will explain why the Department of Justice has had to ask the Supreme Court to intervene over and over again,” said Cruz.
The judges repeatedly blocking Trump administration policies, argued Cruz, are acting more like &#8220;partisan political activists&#8221; than fair-minded judges. Cruz also pointed out that a mere &#8220;handful of judges&#8221; are the ones who are preventing the administration from carrying out federal policies, a third of the injunctions having originated in California courts.
These judges are &#8220;operating effectively as part of the resistance movement,&#8221; abusing their authority to block Trump administration policies &#8220;they happen to disagree with,&#8221; the senator maintained.
In response to the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in favor of the stay, the White House issued a statement over the weekend defending the rationale of its &#8220;public charge&#8221; rule.
&#8220;This final rule will protect hardworking American taxpayers, safeguard welfare programs for truly needy Americans, reduce the Federal deficit, and re-establish the fundamental legal principle that newcomers to our society should be financially self-reliant and not dependent on the largesse of United States taxpayers,&#8221; the White House said.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-slams-two-supreme-court-justices-after-they-make-political-remarks-demands-recusals">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Trump also blasted Sotomayor for her criticism of the other justices, calling her complaint &#8220;a terrible thing to say&#8221; and suggesting she and fellow progressive Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg &#8220;should recuse themselves on all Trump, or Trump related, matters!&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-slams-two-supreme-court-justices-after-they-make-political-remarks-demands-recusals">Trump Slams Two Supreme Court Justices After They Make Political Remarks, Demands Recusals</a>

Cruz Torches Sotomayor: ‘Like An Arsonist Complaining About The Noise From The Fire Trucks’

Sonia Sotomayor

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Actor James Woods and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) came to national prominence two utterly different ways but both have found themselves in recent years thriving in the same space, social media. Both men have became must-follows for conservatives online and, since Woods made his big return to Twitter a few weeks ago, the two conservatives have been drawing attention at times to each other&#8217;s posts.
With socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) increasingly looking like the prohibitive favorite to take the Democratic nomination, Woods and Cruz have weighed in recently on Sanders and what his rise means about the direction of the Democratic Party, and the two conservative voices have found a lot of common ground.
In response to former Democratic candidate Andrew Yang telling CNN, as Sanders was cruising to victory in Nevada over the weekend, that the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the working class, Cruz agreed and expanded on Yang&#8217;s premise.
&#8220;Yang is right: This is the most fundamental political shift of the past decade,&#8221; Cruz tweeted. &#8220;The Democratic Party has abandoned the working class, has abandoned union members, and the GOP has become the blue-collar party of jobs.&#8221;
Woods, in turn, noticed Cruz&#8217;s tweet, likewise agreed with the premise, and offered his own, less senatorial and a little more dramatized take on the Democratic Party.
&#8220;The Democratic Party has been hijacked by screeching socialists, ranting &#8216;intersectionalists,&#8217; whatever they hell they are, and masked Antifa street thugs,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Republicans stand for jobs, borders, and national security. The Democratic Party is a vampirized husk, gone forever.&#8221;
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Yang is right: This is the most fundamental political shift of the past decade. The Democratic Party has abandoned the working class, has abandoned union members, and the GOP has become the blue-collar party of jobs. <a href="https://t.co/SsVPfjRDO6">https://t.co/SsVPfjRDO6</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231417449028911105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Democratic Party has been hijacked by screeching socialists, ranting “intersectionalists,” whatever they hell they are, and masked Antifa street thugs. Republicans stand for jobs, borders, and national security. The Democratic Party is a vampirized husk, gone forever. <a href="https://t.co/Q3aqHGRAKM">https://t.co/Q3aqHGRAKM</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1231654686693814273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz, who eventually retweeted Woods&#8217; response, followed up his &#8220;abandoned the working class&#8221; post by highlighting Sanders&#8217; anti-Israel stance, pointing his readers to Mark Levin&#8217;s highlighting of an article presenting eight of the candidate&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1231237314837389312">anti-Israel outrages</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the Democratic front runner,&#8221; wrote Cruz.
Cruz, a Cuban-American, then addressed Sanders&#8217; most recent praise of a dictatorial communist regime, his defense of murderous Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro. &#8220;We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but it’s unfair to say everything’s bad,&#8221; Sanders told &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; on Sunday. &#8220;When Castro came into office you know what he did? He had a literacy program.&#8221;
&#8220;It really makes a difference when those you murder at the firing squad can read &amp; write,&#8221; Cruz replied.
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This is the Democratic front runner. <a href="https://t.co/uBrJzNmGTW">https://t.co/uBrJzNmGTW</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231454594779185152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It really makes a difference when those you murder at the firing squad can read &amp; write. <a href="https://t.co/4DKbSKpI6t">https://t.co/4DKbSKpI6t</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231762113141649408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Woods likewise continued to offer commentary over the weekend about Sanders. After his Cruz-retweeted post, Woods blasted out an even more politically incorrect summary of the current state of the &#8220;commie curmudgeon&#8221;-supporting party he once backed.
&#8220;The election of [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], [Rashida Tlaib], and [Ilhan Omar] was a perfect storm that destroyed the Democratic Party,&#8221; the actor wrote (posts below). &#8220;Nancy Pelosi rolled over for them like a two dollar hooker, and the Democrats are now stuck with a commie curmudgeon screaming at billionaire boogeymen under his bed.&#8221;
He followed up that post with a mocking image of &#8220;Commie&#8221; Bernie holding up a baby version of his most prominent advocate, Ocasio-Cortez, gleefully waving a Soviet flag.
As for Sanders&#8217; fellow democratic socialists, Woods had this to say about Ocasio-Cortez in a subsequent tweet: &#8220;What’s critical to remember about democracy is that stupid people also get to vote. What’s dangerous about that is that stupid people feel comfortable when they vote for other stupid people. It’s a vicious circle.&#8221;
Later, a Sanders tweet offered Woods a chance to sum up what he suggested was the fundamental flaw of the senator&#8217;s socialist policies.
&#8220;What would free, quality child care and pre-K mean for you and your family?&#8221; Sanders tweeted.
&#8220;More taxes,&#8221; Woods replied.
Woods continued to voice his complaints about the Democratic Party on Monday. In response to somebody announcing online that they were leaving the Democratic Party, Woods took a moment to explain his rationale for doing the same some years back.
&#8220;I was a Democrat my whole life,&#8221; he wrote Monday morning. &#8220;The party in my youth stood for strong national defense, jobs for the working American, strong borders, the sanctity of human life, and equal rights. I never left the Democratic Party. It left me. And you. Welcome to sanity.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congresswoman-of-cuban-descent-rips-bernie-after-castro-defense-absolutely-unacceptable">Democrat Congresswoman Of Cuban Descent Rips Bernie After Castro Defense: ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’</a>
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The election of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AOC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AOC</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RashidaTlaib?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RashidaTlaib</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IlhanOmar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IlhanOmar</a> was a perfect storm that destroyed the Democratic Party. Nancy Pelosi rolled over for them like a two dollar hooker, and the Democrats are now stuck with a commie curmudgeon screaming at billionaire boogeymen under his bed. <a href="https://t.co/CgT1CmsSV6">pic.twitter.com/CgT1CmsSV6</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1231661488269430784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CommieCurmudgeon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CommieCurmudgeon</a> <a href="https://t.co/Hm5Q5UgT28">pic.twitter.com/Hm5Q5UgT28</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1231667772070846464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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What’s critical to remember about democracy is that stupid people also get to vote. What’s dangerous about that is that stupid people feel comfortable when they vote for other stupid people. It’s a vicious circle. <a href="https://t.co/4HgWYFUV3G">pic.twitter.com/4HgWYFUV3G</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1231671905419030528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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More taxes. <a href="https://t.co/7SUZsOCgvF">https://t.co/7SUZsOCgvF</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1232013431961575424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I was a Democrat my whole life. The party in my youth stood for strong national defense, jobs for the working American, strong borders, the sanctity of human life, and equal rights. I never left the Democratic Party. It left me. And you. Welcome to sanity. <a href="https://t.co/4q7Ijf01W9">https://t.co/4q7Ijf01W9</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1231993173276151808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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James Woods, Ted Cruz Team Up To Take Down Sanders

2020 Election

Bernie Sanders

Fidel Castro

On Monday morning, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who routinely clobbers leftist politicians on Twitter when they assert something outrageous, targeted California governor Gavin Newsom for his ridiculous pronouncement in his State of the State address that a way to solve the rampant homelessness in his state was to have doctors write prescriptions for housing.
Newsom tweeted a snippet of the address, writing, “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.”
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Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230889348167434240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz decided he had heard enough fanciful nonsense, tweeting, “This is the Leftist mind: write a slip of paper &amp; a house will magically appear. Never mind that the person doesn’t have a job, the contractor can’t get a CA permit to build the house, rent control has caused a housing shortage &amp; homeless people are crapping on the doorstep.”
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This is the Leftist mind: write a slip of paper &amp; a house will magically appear. Never mind that the person doesn’t have a job, the contractor can’t get a CA permit to build the house, rent control has caused a housing shortage &amp; homeless people are crapping on the doorstep. 🤡 <a href="https://t.co/giz3z7vHFB">https://t.co/giz3z7vHFB</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231996492057063427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Newsom also tweeted:
<blockquote>10 million Californians—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition. It’s not a narrow issue. It’s not a new issue. Physical health and brain health are inextricably linked. And our healthcare system has been designed to treat only one of those.
Let’s be clear: Massive failures in our mental health system and disinvestment in our social safety net—exacerbated by widening income inequality and our housing shortage— has led us to where we are today: too many Californians left to live on our streets.</blockquote>
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10 million Californians—1 in 4—suffer from some type of behavioral health condition. 
It’s not a narrow issue.
It’s not a new issue.
Physical health and brain health are inextricably linked.
And our healthcare system has been designed to treat only one of those.
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230892301100011520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Let’s be clear: Massive failures in our mental health system and disinvestment in our social safety net—exacerbated by widening income inequality and our housing shortage— has led us to where we are today: too many Californians left to live on our streets.
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230896433428979713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz eviscerated that, too, writing, “Maybe stop giving them needles that they leave en masse in public parks? And refusing to prosecute them when they engage in theft or vandalism? How ‘bout drug treatment programs instead?”
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Maybe stop giving them needles that they leave en masse in public parks? And refusing to prosecute them when they engage in theft or vandalism? How ‘bout drug treatment programs instead? <a href="https://t.co/r7MXQ5rJYl">https://t.co/r7MXQ5rJYl</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1231996994031378434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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What made Newsom’s remark about doctors writing prescriptions especially ironic is that it was obviously framed as a soundbite. Yet in that same State of the State address, Newsom stated, “The State of California can no longer treat homelessness and housing insecurity as someone else’s problem, buried below other priorities which are easier to win or better suited for soundbites.”
Yet Newsom framed the issue by using a soundbite of his own.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-gov-gavin-newsom-doctors-should-be-able-to-prescribe-housing-like-medication">The Daily Wire</a> has reported:
<blockquote>A December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homelessness-is-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-one-state-is-driving-it">report</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revealed that homelessness is on the rise in the U.S. and that Democrat-controlled California was the main force driving the increase in the U.S. homelessness rate.</blockquote>
“While the rest of the country experienced a combined decrease in homelessness in 2019, significant increases in unsheltered and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon, offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness of 2.7 percent in 2019,” HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177">said</a> in a statement. “Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported declines in homelessness between 2018 and 2019, while 21 states reported increases in the number of persons experiencing homelessness. Homelessness in California increased by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined.”
In January, Newsom <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=269269">admitted,</a> “Let’s just be candid; the state of California has been nowhere to be found on the damn issue of homelessness &#8230; It’s happened on our watch over the last decade; in particular, it’s really gotten bad over the last decade. And we were just slow to respond.”

Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump

CA Gov Newsom Has Magic Plan To Solve Homeless Problem. Ted Cruz Hits Him With Reality.

Gavin Newsom

The American Petroleum Institute (API) released a new digital advertisement ahead of the Democratic presidential debate tonight on NBC that highlights the devastating economic impacts if Democrats are successful in banning fracking.
The ad, which features Democratic politicians and left-wing media organizations, raises serious concerns about how banning fracking will cost America millions of jobs, will raise costs of goods and services in the U.S., and will threaten U.S. national security.
The Washington Post recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/climate-change/fracking-ban/">reported</a> that of the eight remaining Democratic presidential candidates, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren would all ban fracking while Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar would all impose more regulations on fracking.
API Rapid Response Manager Scott Parker told The Daily Wire: “Fracking has been one of the most important technological advancements in American history, and banning it would erase a generation of American progress. A fracking ban would leave working families behind, cost millions of jobs, and deliver a major win to countries like Russia. Presidential candidates who stand with American workers must stand against a ban on fracking.”
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Millions of American jobs lost, higher living costs, and U.S. national security in jeopardy. 
API’s new video addresses what supporters of a fracking ban won’t – its devastating cost to America. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/wJfl1UWzIn">pic.twitter.com/wJfl1UWzIn</a>
&mdash; American Petroleum Institute (@APIenergy) <a href="https://twitter.com/APIenergy/status/1230306188845252608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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API&#8217;s digital ad comes after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) put out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ted-cruz-shreds-bernie-aoc-bill-to-ban-fracking">a similar ad on Tuesday night</a> hammering Democrats&#8217; plans as an attempt to implement socialism in the United States.
“We’re currently experiencing an American energy Renaissance with the United States having now become the number-one producer of oil and the number-one producer of natural gas on the planet,” Cruz says at the start of the video.
“The energy independence of the United States is something that people have been talking about for 50 years, and I never thought it would happen, and here it is,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said next in the video. “It’s in the nature of a miracle.”
“Fracking unlocked massive shale deposits of both natural gas and oils. Totally transformed the geopolitical world,” Cruz continued.
The video then transitions to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talking about how Democrats want to take away America’s energy independence.
“We need to put an end to fracking, not only in New York and Vermont, but all over this country,” Sanders said.
Cruz continued next in the video, saying, “What is dangerous about the climate movement is it has become an emotional primal scream rather than being driven by science.”
The video then highlighted extremist policy proposals by far-left Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who said at a rally, “By 2030, no more cars. By 2035, no more production of electricity.”
“Political leaders who are advocating it are also advocating massive government control of the economy and socialism,” Cruz continued. “Climate is a good excuse to say you’ve got to have socialism or else all of humanity’s gonna die.”
The video then cuts to extremist rhetoric from socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who said in 2019, “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”
Far-left Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is featured next, saying, “Imagine if one party disagreed with the other party on whether it was a good idea to treat cancer.”
Cruz then highlighted the impacts of Democrats’ plan to ban fracking, stating, “Policies to ban fracking would cost 14 million jobs nationally. In the state of Texas, would cost one and a half million jobs. It is hard to find something that would be more economically devastating.”
WATCH:
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Sen. Bernie Sanders And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Housing Green New Deal

WATCH: Digital Ad Highlights Devastating Impacts Of Democrats’ Plan To Ban Fracking

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Sen. Ted Cruz released a digital ad on Tuesday that slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) – both of whom are socialists – for their attempts to ban fracking, which would harm American energy production.
Breitbart News, which first reported on the video, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/18/exclusive-watch-ted-cruz-torches-bernie-sanders-ocasio-cortezs-bill-to-ban-fracking/">noted</a> that &#8220;Cruz released the video after Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL) introduced legislation that would ban fracking nationwide.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re currently experiencing an American energy Renaissance with the United States having now become the number-one producer of oil and the number-one producer of natural gas on the planet,&#8221; Cruz says at the start of the video.
&#8220;The energy independence of the United States is something that people people been talking about for 50 years and I never thought it would happen and here it is,&#8221; Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said next in the video. &#8220;It&#8217;s in the nature of a miracle.&#8221;
&#8220;Fracking unlocked massive shale deposits of both natural gas and oils. Totally transformed the geopolitical world,&#8221; Cruz continued.
The video then transitions to Sanders talking and highlights how Democrats want to take away America&#8217;s energy independence.
&#8220;We need to put an end to fracking, not only in New York and Vermont, but all over this country,&#8221; Sanders said.
Cruz then highlights how Democrats use the issue of environmentalism to push their radical political agenda, &#8220;What is really a what is dangerous about the climate movement is it has become an emotional primal scream rather than being driven by science.&#8221;
The video then cuts to far-left Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren saying, &#8220;By 2030, no more cars. By 2035, no more production of electricity.&#8221;
&#8220;Political leaders who are advocating it are also advocating massive government control of the economy and socialism,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;Climate is a good excuse to say you&#8217;ve got to have socialism or else all of humanity&#8217;s gonna die.&#8221;
The video then cuts to climate extremist Ocasio-Cortez saying, &#8220;the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t address climate change.&#8221;
Far-left Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is featured next, saying, &#8220;imagine if one party disagreed with the other party on whether it was a good idea to treat cancer.&#8221;
Cruz then highlighted the impacts of Democrats&#8217; proposed policies, saying, &#8220;policies to ban fracking would cost 14 million jobs nationally. In the state of Texas would cost one and a half million jobs. It is hard to find something that would be more economically devastating.&#8221;
WATCH:
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WATCH: Ted Cruz Shreds Bernie, AOC Bill To Ban Fracking

Alabama lawmaker Rollanda Hollis (D-AL) proposed a law in the state legislature earlier this month that would require all men to celebrate their 50th birthday with a mandatory vasectomy — and pay for it themselves. 
“Under existing law, there are no restrictions on the reproductive rights of men,” says Hollis in the text of the bill. “This bill would require a man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first.”
Ted Cruz, the 49-year old Texas senator, responded to the proposal requiring 50th birthday vasectomies with strong opposition, and a reminder about the threat of big government. 
“Yikes. A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything&#8230;literally! Alabama Democrat proposes bill mandating all men have vasectomy at age 50 or after third child,” tweeted Cruz on Sunday. 
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Yikes. A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything&#8230;literally! Alabama Democrat proposes bill mandating all men have vasectomy at age 50 or after third child. <a href="https://t.co/PeaNUg1Joc">https://t.co/PeaNUg1Joc</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229054383540887555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.al.com/politics/2020/02/state-reps-bill-would-force-men-to-get-vasectomies-at-50.html">AL</a>, Hollis said that the bill was a response to the Human Life Protection Act, which was passed last year and prohibits abortions after the baby’s heartbeat begins to form at around six week: “We can’t put all the responsibility on women. Men need to be responsible also.”
The news agency also reported that Hollis believes she is both “pro-life and pro-choice,” and that Hollis said she does “not believe that women should use abortion as a birth control, but I do believe that if a women is raped or if it’s incest or anything like that, then she has the choice to do what she wants to do.”
While Hollis doesn’t expect the bill to pass, if the bill were to become law, men could expect to pay anywhere between $300 and $3,000 for the procedure. 
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/alabama-abortion-ban.html">The New York Times</a>, as of last October, the Human Life Protection Act has been barred from going into effect by federal courts, prompting local lawmakers to decry the intervention as simply another instance of judicial activism.The bill would shield women who receive abortions from criminal liability, but would give prosecutors the authority to pursue up to 99  years in prison for anyone who performs an abortion. 
“This legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God,” said Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, who signed the bill into law. 
However, Steve Marshall, the state attorney general, has claimed that the primary intent of the proposal was not to go into effect immediately, but to trigger a challenge to a Supreme Court case that has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right for decades. 
“As we have stated before, the state’s objective is to advance our case to the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Marshall in a statement last October, who says the effort is designed to prove that Planned Parenthood v. Casey was “wrongly decided and that the Constitution does not prohibit states from protecting unborn children from abortion.”

Uncle Sam Vasectomy

Alabama Lawmaker Proposes Mandatory Vasectomies For Men Turning Fifty. Ted Cruz Responds.

Alabama

On Monday, former President Barack Obama decided to promulgate the idea that he was responsible for the current strong state of the economy, tweeting, “Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.”
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Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history. <a href="https://t.co/BmdXrxUAUf">pic.twitter.com/BmdXrxUAUf</a>
&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1229432034650722304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Two famous conservatives blasted Obama as a result of his braggadocio. The enormously talented and outspoken conservative actor James Woods, who took a nine-month leave of absence from Twitter but then returned at the beginning of February, ripped Obama, tweeting, “The notion that you did anything but destroy this nation’s economy is beyond hilarious. “Those jobs are never coming back. What’s he going to do, wave a magic wand?” Yes, @realDonaldTrump did exactly that. Your only sad legacy was your blatant lies about ObamaCare.”
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The notion that you did anything but destroy this nation’s economy is beyond hilarious. “Those jobs are never coming back. What’s he going to do, wave a magic wand?” Yes, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> did exactly that. Your only sad legacy was your blatant lies about ObamaCare. <a href="https://t.co/1vCePXZ3tv">https://t.co/1vCePXZ3tv</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1229477465489166338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Woods was then echoed by another famous conservative, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who issued one of the most succinct tweets he has ever written, saying bluntly, “Damn straight.”
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Damn straight. <a href="https://t.co/LD49jTlWLF">https://t.co/LD49jTlWLF</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229547733461143552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Woods was suspended from Twitter in April 2019 after tweeting, “If you try to kill the King, you better not miss. #HangThemAll.” He told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-woods-releases-new-statement-about-twitter-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire,</a> “Twitter demanded that I rescind my tweet paraphrasing Emerson. It now seems they have chosen to delete that tweet from my account without my permission. Until free speech is allowed on Twitter, I will not be permitted to participate in our democracy with my voice. As long as Jack Dorsey remains the coward he seems to be, my Twitter days are in the past.”
President Trump weighed in, tweeting, “How can it be possible that James Woods (and many others), a strong but responsible Conservative Voice, is banned from Twitter? Social Media &amp; Fake News Media, together with their partner, the Democrat Party, have no idea the problems they are causing for themselves. VERY UNFAIR!”
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How can it be possible that James Woods (and many others), a strong but responsible Conservative Voice, is banned from Twitter? Social Media &amp; Fake News Media, together with their partner, the Democrat Party, have no idea the problems they are causing for themselves. VERY UNFAIR!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1124743267873116160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire noted, National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/donald-trump-economic-success-prosperity-increasing/">highlighted</a> some of Trump’s economic accomplishments:
<blockquote>The census report ten days ago revealed workers’ earnings increasing at 3.4 percent annually, a rate not seen since the best of the Reagan years, and the poverty rate has declined to 11.8 percent, the best figure that has been recorded since the end of the Clinton administration and still resolutely proceeding in the right direction. Unemployment is at its lowest percentage since the Lyndon Johnson administration more than 50 years ago (and the numbers then were helped by having 545,000 conscripts in Vietnam). Minority groups are the principal beneficiaries of the Trump economy; this isn’t trickle-down, it’s surge-up. Average income for female-led single-parent households jumped 7.6 percent last year, well ahead of gains in higher income groups.
The poverty rate among female-led households fell 2.7 percent for African Americans, and 4 percent for Hispanics. Industries largely populated by women (and, historically, exploited women), especially hospitality and, to a lesser extent, health care, showed strong earnings gains, even as unemployment rates for African-American and Hispanic women fell to under 4.5 percent.
Another partisan Democratic falsehood that is exposed by the census is the myth that the middle class is shrinking. The percentage of total families at the lowest economic levels has fallen by over 1 whole percent and the brackets from $50,000 to $150,000 and above $200,000 have both increased by almost 1 whole percent (several million people in each case). There were sharp increases in the incomes of younger families (up to age 34).</blockquote>

2017 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony &#8211; Inside

Obama Brags He Made U.S. Economy Strong. James Woods Fires Back. Then Ted Cruz Finishes The Job.

Barack Obama

In an astonishingly partisan move, the Virginia House of Delegates, which has a majority of Democrats, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-house-passes-bill-to-award-electoral-votes-to-national-popular-vote-winner">voted to disenfranchise their voters</a> by deciding to give their entire state’s presidential electoral votes to whomever wins the popular vote.
The move was likely prompted by Virginia Democrats’ assumption that just as President Trump lost the popular vote on 2016, he might do so again, and thus their bill, House Bill 177, would hand the state’s votes to his Democratic challenger.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) who is one of the great constitutional scholars of the Senate, fired back at the high-handed tactics of the Virginia Democrats and their blithe rejection of the ideals for which the American Founders stood, tweeting, “VA House votes to give all of Virginia’s votes to California &amp; New York. Because that’s definitely in the interest of Virginians. Jefferson &amp; Madison would be appalled.”
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VA House votes to give all of Virginia’s votes to California &amp; New York. Because that’s definitely in the interest of Virginians. Jefferson &amp; Madison would be appalled. <a href="https://t.co/P4mELKgrOw">https://t.co/P4mELKgrOw</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1228313069929074688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The bill passed in the Virginia House 51-46 and is now headed for the Virginia Senate, where Democrats also hold a majority, and then on to Democratic Governor Ralph Northam. As <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/482766-virginia-house-passes-bill-to-award-electoral-votes-to-whoever-wins-the">The Hill</a> reported, “Virginia would subsequently be entered into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”
The bill’s summary asserts, “Under the compact, Virginia agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact goes into effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have joined the compact … A state may withdraw from the compact; however, a withdrawal occurring within six months of the end of a President&#8217;s term shall not become effective until a President or Vice President has qualified to serve the next term.”
15 states and Washington, D.C., have joined the compact, <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status"> National Popular Vote</a> reports. The Hill notes, “A group of states possessing 74 electoral votes would need to join the agreement in order for the compact to take effect.”
Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution reads:
<blockquote>The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress &#8230;
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States&#8230;.The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed &#8230;</blockquote>
As Allan Gulezo wrote in <a href="https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/in-defense-of-the-electoral-college">National Affairs</a> in 2018 in a comprehensive piece defending the Electoral College, “This method was slightly altered by the 12th Amendment in 1804, but only slightly, and we have elected presidents in the same way ever since. There is no mention whatsoever of a popular vote, at any level.”

Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump Continues

To Defeat Trump, Virginia Dems Give State’s Electoral Votes Away. Ted Cruz Gives Them A Constitutional Lesson.

Electoral College

Virginia

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were instrumental in getting key swing votes in the Senate to vote against calling more witnesses in the Democrat-led impeachment of President Donald Trump.
On Friday’s episode of Cruz’s podcast, “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-10-its-not-over-yet/id1495601614?i=1000464294771">Verdict</a>,” co-hosted by The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, the two senators explained exactly how they were able to get Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Lisa Murkowski (I-AK) to vote against calling more witnesses even though they previously had expressed they would likely vote for calling witnesses.
“It really came down to we knew we had 47 Democrats who wanted more witnesses. Why? Because they knew they hadn’t proven the case, they’re losing, and so the only hope they have is [to] extend it, go on a fishing expedition and see if they can find something,” Cruz explained. “The big, open question was: Were four Republicans going to join them? We knew that two Republicans were – they’d announced it already – Mitt Romney and Susan Collins with [Democrats]. There were two other senators in play, Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski and it was close. Last night, Lamar announced that he was going to come out and say, ‘Enough is enough’ and we got a final decision from Lisa today just a few minutes before she voted.”
Graham said that he and Cruz “had a little team trying to convince people” to vote against more witnesses.
“So, what would happen if you called witnesses? It’d be a shitshow,” Graham said. “You’re not just going to call John Bolton. If you’re going to call a witness, we’re going to call all the witnesses. Wouldn’t you want to know a little bit about the Bidens?”
Graham added that the Senate would be opening “Pandora’s Box” by allowing Bolton to testify even though his testimony wouldn’t have been necessary if Democrats had already proved their case.
“Ted made a very eloquent argument that it throws the courts into chaos,” Graham continued. “It would be the first impeachment in history where executive privilege would be decided by the United States Senate; that if you call one witness, you’re going to call a bunch of witnesses; the president didn’t get to call one witness in the House.”
“The whole idea of legitimizing an impeachment in the House that took 78 days. You can’t get a parking ticket [taken care of] in 78 days if you contest it,” Graham added.
Graham said he and Cruz tried to convince Alexander and Murkowski that House Democrats were trying to get the Senate to do their work for them.
“Don’t legitimize this. Don’t do their work for them. They’re accusing you of being unfair because you did not call a witness they chose not to call,” Graham said. “Why didn’t they call John Bolton? Because it would be inconvenient; they couldn’t impeach the president by Christmas. That’s not a good reason to ignore the courts.”
Cruz said the “pivotal moment” came on Wednesday, when Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) spoke about having Bolton testify.
“Adam Schiff made a mistake,” Cruz said. “He was standing up, arguing, and he said. ‘Listen, the White House defense team have made John Bolton relevant because they have contradicted what he said.’ And then he threw a little aside, he said, ‘If they’d have stipulated to it, then they’d have an argument.’”
Cruz said that he went back into the cloak room and texted his staff to get him a transcript of exactly what Schiff had just said. Once he had it, he and Graham spoke to Alexander and Murkowski.
“This idea of if you stipulate to a quid pro quo, if you agree, even if there isn’t a quid pro quo, we win, that might get their vote,” Cruz suggested. “That might give them a ground to be comfortable.”
He said Alexander and Murkowski “were open to the idea,” but not quite convinced. Cruz went on to say that the most important question was asked the next day by Graham (with writing help from Cruz), asking to assume that if Bolton testifies and everything he says is true, that there was a quid pro quo, is that an impeachable offense?
“And the White House lawyers – they didn’t want to go down this road. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this point and I’ll tell you, there was some kicking and screaming that Lindsey and I were both engaged with,” Cruz said. “But they got up and they gave the answer – the most important – and said, ‘Look, even if he testifies, even if he says it was a quid pro quo, it doesn’t change that it’s an impeachable offense, which means his testimony isn’t necessary.’”
Graham added: “If we call John Bolton now, won’t the president raise executive privilege? Because if he doesn’t, he forfeits that for future protests. Do we as senators destroy the privilege? It would be the first impeachment in history where there was no court access.”
“What happens if we try to capture this testimony?” Graham continued. “The president was denied the chance to go to court in the House, they shut him out. What if we say now we want to call him for a new reason and if he asks to go to court… it might be the first time in history the president was impeached without trying to avail the courts.”
Cruz said later in the podcast that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also helped solidify Murkowsi and Alexander’s votes against calling more witnesses, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-helped-trump-with-her-belligerent-impeachment-question-cruz-says">reported</a>. Warren had forced Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts to read out a question asking whether him presiding over the impeachment trial would “contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, or Constitution?”
“Elizabeth Warren helped defeat the impeachment of the president of the United States,” Cruz said in the podcast, adding that the stunt “helped deliver the votes of” Alexander and Murkowski.
While explaining why she decided to vote against calling more witnesses, the Alaska senator said it had “become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice.”
“I will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded this institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another,” Murkowski said. “We are sadly at a low point of division in this country.”

Sen. Ted Cruz.

How Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham Helped Convince Senate Against Calling Additional Witnesses

Impeachment

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has been plunging in the 2020 presidential polls of late, decided to try to make a splash at the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Because senators take every opportunity to bloviate before the cameras, they were forced to submit questions in writing, which would then be read by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who presided over the trial.
&#8220;At a time when large majorities of Americans have lost faith in government,&#8221; Roberts said, reading Warren&#8217;s question, &#8220;does the fact that the chief justice is presiding over an impeachment trial in which Republican senators have thus far refused to allow witnesses or evidence contribute to the loss of legitimacy of the chief justice, the Supreme Court, or Constitution?&#8221;
The room fell silent, with Roberts stone faced.
The question had huge ramifications, said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), declaring that it actually helped secure Trump’s acquittal, as well as the vote to reject calling more witnesses in the Senate trial.
“Elizabeth Warren helped defeat the impeachment of the president of the United States,” Cruz said late Friday on a new episode of his podcast “<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-10-its-not-over-yet/id1495601614?i=1000464294771">Verdict,</a>” co-hosted by Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles. “That stunt helped deliver the votes of Lisa and Lamar,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Lisa&#8221; is Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and &#8220;Lamar&#8221; is Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Both turned out to be the key votes in shooting down a demand by Democrats more witnesses be called.
Murkowski was the last Republican to announce that she would vote against witnesses, a stark turnaround from earlier in the week when she appeared to be leaning that direction. In a scathing statement, Murkowski said it had “become clear some of my colleagues intend to further politicize this process, and drag the Supreme Court into the fray, while attacking the Chief Justice.”
“I will not stand for nor support that effort. We have already degraded this institution for partisan political benefit, and I will not enable those who wish to pull down another,” she said. “We are sadly at a low point of division in this country.”
“Given the partisan nature of this impeachment from the very beginning and throughout, I have come to the conclusion that there will be no fair trial in the Senate. I don’t believe the continuation of this process will change anything,&#8221; she said.
Democrats had quietly criticized Roberts, who had declared that he would not deliver a tie-breaking vote, meaning that a 50-50 vote to call witnesses would fail. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the minority leader, declared that a previous Chief Justice had cast tie-breaking votes — in 1868 — and pressed Roberts to do so. But Roberts smartly decided that the impeachment trial was solely an exercise in the Senate.
In his podcast, Cruz said that Republicans were angered by a left-wing group that put out an ad Friday showing Roberts wearing a superimposed Trump campaign MAGA hat. That, too, fueled the pushback from wavering Republicans who had previously been warm to the idea of calling more witnesses.
As for Warren, she&#8217;s tumbled into fourth place in the Iowa polls, and it looks like her little stunt will have some more fallout before it blows away.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cruz-goes-over-the-4-critical-questions-he-asked-during-impeachment-qa">WATCH: Cruz Goes Over The 4 Critical Questions He Asked During Impeachment Q&amp;A</a>

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Elizabeth Warren Helped Trump With Her Belligerent Impeachment Question, Cruz Says

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On episode eight of “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” which was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, the senator discusses four of the most critical questions asked during the “Question and Answer” portion of the ongoing Senate impeachment trial that took place on Wednesday.
The first question Cruz asked was, “as a matter of law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo?”
Cruz noted that the Democrats are “bickering back and forth” about a quid pro quo because it would tie into bringing in former National Security Advisor John Bolton as a new witness.
“And my point is &#8230; it doesn&#8217;t matter. It makes no impact on the legal issue,” Cruz said. “And so that was the question I wanted to emphasize at the outset to make clear the legal question is, does the president have the authority to do what he did? And in this instance – look, a point I&#8217;ve been making from the beginning, a president always has the authority to investigate corruption if there&#8217;s credible evidence.”
Knowles asked Cruz if he was “satisfied” with the answer given, and Cruz said that he was. He then explained that even the new Middle East peace proposal is a quid pro quo.
<blockquote>The president is promising, among other things, to the Palestinians, that collectively, the United States and other countries will invest $50 billion if the Palestinians stop terrorism. That&#8217;s a quid pro quo. That&#8217;s an exchange that happens in foreign policy all the time.</blockquote>
Cruz added that this is an important point to make clear because what “an awful lot of what people are fighting about doesn&#8217;t affect the question, the legal question before the Senate, of whether the president committed impeachable crimes, whether the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Cruz continued, stating that his second question arose out of a hypothetical from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) pertaining to Obama investigating Mitt Romney in 2012. 
“Lindsey Graham came up to me &#8230; what if Obama had evidence that Romney was corrupt?” Cruz said. “And I&#8217;m like, that’s good.”
Cruz then offered the question, which he penned and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asked:
<blockquote>If President Obama had evidence that Mitt Romney&#8217;s son was being paid a million dollars a year by a corrupt Russian company &#8230; and Romney had acted in his official capacity to benefit that company, would Obama have had the authority to ask that the potential corruption be investigated?</blockquote>
As for the answer, Cruz said that while Republicans knew the Democrats would try to “filibuster the question &#8230; there’s value &#8230; to teeing up that hypothetical, making clear that their position is, doesn’t matter what evidence of corruption you have, you can&#8217;t have an investigation if it&#8217;s your political rival. Well, that’s just nutty. I mean, that&#8217;s not the law. That doesn&#8217;t make any sense.”
Cruz said that Schiff’s alleged refusal to answer the question provided insight, especially in light of his responses to the following questions.
Cruz’s third question pertained to the whistleblower:
<blockquote>So, this is a question I had written out before that points out that the inspector general for the intelligence community wrote that the whistleblower had some indicia of arguable political bias in favor of a rival political candidate &#8230; I said, look, did the whistleblower ever work for Joe Biden? If so, did he work for Joe Biden on issues involving Ukraine? If so, did he assist in any material way with the quid pro quo that Joe Biden executed when he demanded that Ukraine fire the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma, the company paying his son a million bucks a year?</blockquote>
According to Cruz, Schiff “utterly dodge[d]” and wouldn&#8217;t “answer.” Instead, he offered a “prepared speech” about protecting the identity of whistleblowers, which had nothing to do with the question.
Cruz told Knowles that Schiff’s answer frustrated him, so he went back to the “cloak room” to write another question, which was then asked by Sen. David Perdue (R-GA):
<blockquote>You refused to answer the question on political bias. Are the House managers refusing to tell the Senate whether or not the so-called whistleblower had an actual conflict of interest? And the question went on to say &#8230; there are seven billion people on planet Earth. Almost all had no involvement, zero involvement, in Biden&#8217;s quid pro quo. Are the House managers unwilling to say whether the so-called whistleblower was a fact witness who directly participated in, and could himself face criminal or civil liability, for Joe Biden&#8217;s demanding Ukraine fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma?</blockquote>
Once again, according to Cruz, Schiff refused to answer the question:
<blockquote>So Adam Schiff, the position of the House managers, they refuse to tell you whether this so-called whistleblower has actual bias, has a conflict of interest, and if he actively participated, if he was working for Joe Biden, and if he was the guy Joe Biden used to say, “Hey, go to the Ukrainians and cut off their military aid until they fire this prosecutor.”</blockquote>
“For all we know, and there are reasons to suspect, based on what the inspector general said, that this so-called whistleblower is not some disinterested third party. He&#8217;s right in the middle,” Cruz said. “If an investigation shows Biden is, in fact, corrupt, it is entirely possible, or at least the House managers wouldn&#8217;t tell us, if this so-called whistleblower was worried about his own rear end, was worried about, wait a second, if they go after Biden, they&#8217;re going to prosecute me because I was involved in this corruption.”
Cruz told Knowles that House managers wouldn’t answer that, but also that Schiff, who “just kind of riff[s],” actually read “word for word” from a piece of paper:
<blockquote>Look, he&#8217;s under oath &#8230; and it was really clear that he didn&#8217;t want to say something on this, about what the inspector general said were significant indications of political bias on the part of the whistleblower. And that suggests this whole thing was cooked up in the beginning, and was a crock from day one. </blockquote>
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WATCH: Cruz Goes Over The 4 Critical Questions He Asked During Impeachment Q&A

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On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), runner-up for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination and a widely respected national conservative movement leader, remained defiant amidst the much-ballyhooed Sunday evening New York Times report about former National Security Advisor John Bolton&#8217;s allegedly explosive forthcoming tell-all book — and the possible effects of that book on Democrats&#8217; current partisan impeachment inquiry.
&#8220;Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that &#8216;additional witnesses are not necessary&#8217; for the ongoing impeachment trial — even in light of revelations from President Trump&#8217;s former national security advisor John Bolton in a leaked manuscript of an upcoming book that claims Trump explicitly linked a hold on military aid for Ukraine to an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden — and instead insisted that the Senate call Hunter Biden to testify,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-bidens-trump-senate-impeachment-trial">reported</a>.
&#8220;Look in my view, additional witnesses are not necessary,&#8221; Cruz said, according to the outlet. &#8220;The House managers have presented their case. They haven&#8217;t come remotely close to meeting their burden of proof. Now that being said, if the Senate later this week when we vote, decides to go down that road to additional witnesses, I think at a minimum, the most important witness for the Senate to hear from, is now Hunter Biden. &#8230; In the entire proceeding, we have heard just the beginning of the serious evidence of corruption involving Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden, Joe Biden&#8217;s son, a million dollars a year.&#8221;
&#8220;I get that the press loves to obsess over the latest [Bolton] bombshell,&#8221; Cruz continued, as reported by Fox News. &#8220;Listen, I don&#8217;t know what John Bolton&#8217;s book says or doesn&#8217;t say. I&#8217;ve seen the New York Times coverage but at the end of the day, it doesn&#8217;t impact the legal issue before this Senate. The legal issue before this Senate is whether a president has the authority to investigate corruption. So the House managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating Burisma corruption, investigating the Bidens for corruption, was baseless and a sham. The proposition is absurd.&#8221;
Today, on the U.S. Senate floor, prominent Trump impeachment defense attorney Jay Sekulow similarly argued that any testimony from Bolton should properly be considered &#8220;inadmissible.&#8221;
“You can’t impeach the president on an unsourced allegation,” Sekulow <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-dismissed-bolton-allegations-its-inadmissible">said</a>, as reported by National Review. &#8220;That was what was said in response to an unpublished manuscript, that maybe some reporters have an idea of, maybe, what it says. If you want to call that evidence, I don’t know what you’d call that. I’d call it inadmissible. But that’s what it is.”
Yesterday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Paul Bois <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-boltons-former-chief-of-staff-slams-him-withdraw-your-book-sets-a-dangerous-precedent">reported</a> how Bolton&#8217;s former chief of staff, Fred Fleitz, took to Fox  News to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ambassador-bolton-withdraw-your-book-fred-fleitz">slam his former boss</a> over the timing and alleged leaking of his new book.
“Presidents must be able to candidly consult with their advisers without worrying they will leak these discussions to the press or obtain high-dollar book contracts to publish them,” Fleitz wrote. “A book by a former national security advisor ahead of a president’s reelection bid may set a dangerous precedent since it could discourage future presidents from seeking advice from expert advisers on sensitive national security matters.”

Ted Cruz: ‘Additional Witnesses’ In Senate Still ‘Not Necessary’

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Speaking on Monday after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-pam-bondi-nukes-democrats-case-highlights-alleged-biden-ukraine-corruption">testimony was given</a> before the Senate by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about alleged corruption surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, regarding their work in Ukraine, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) fired off verbal missiles at the Bidens, the Democrats and the press for ignoring what he called the justified actions of President Trump in asking for an investigation.
In the course of Cruz answering reporters’ questions, one reporter stated, “None of the president’s attorneys mentioned one single possible crime that Hunter or joe Biden are accused of. Basically what they said was, ‘Hunter Biden got a job, his dad was vice-president.’ If that’s a crime, I mean, shouldn’t half of your children be in prison?”
Cruz fired back, drawing laughs from those around him, “My children are nine and eleven. I’m sorry you want to throw a nine-year-old in prison, but at this point, my third-grader plays basketball and softball at her school.”
Prior to that exchange, Cruz began with some fire of his own:
<blockquote>This is the first time in the entire proceeding we have heard, just at the beginning, of the serious evidence of corruption involving Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, a million dollars a year, while Hunter (Joe) Biden threatened Ukraine to withhold a billion dollars in aid unless and until they fired the prosecutor investigating his son.
We just saw a video which I would encourage every news outlet here to actually show, the video of Joe Biden bragging about how he told the president of Ukraine he was gonna cut off a billion dollars; he was gonna block a billion dollars in foreign aid to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor, and in Joe Biden’s own words, “son-of-a-b****, they fired the guy!”</blockquote>
Cruz continued:
<blockquote>I get that the press loves to obsess over the latest “bombshell.” Listen, I don’t know what John Bolton’s book says or doesn’t say; I’ve seen The New York Times coverage, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t impact the legal issue before this Senate. The legal issue before this Senate is whether a president has the authority to investigate corruption.
So the House managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating Burisma corruption, investigating the Bidens for corruption, was baseless and a sham. That proposition was absurd; we’ve just seen — they said there wasn’t a shred of evidence concerning corruption. We’ve just seen two hours of evidence, and at a minimum, it was not only reasonable and justified, but the president, I think, had an obligation to investigate corruption that potentially extended to the very highest levels of government.</blockquote>
Reporter: Senator, over the last two hours, none of the president’s attorneys mentioned one single possible crime that Hunter or Joe Biden are accused of. Basically what they said was, “Hunter Biden got a job, his dad was vice-president.” If that’s a crime, I mean, shouldn’t half of your children be in prison?”
Cruz: My children are nine and eleven. I’m sorry you want to throw a nine-year-old in prison, but at this point, my third-grader plays basketball and softball at her school. So stop playing the nasty Washington game —
Reporter: I’m sorry, that’s not a nasty Washington game —
Cruz: Attacking a nine-year-old?
Another reporter asked about the idea of the Democrats and Republicans calling extra witnesses in equal measure. Cruz answered:
<blockquote>Look, in my view, additional witnesses are not necessary. The House managers have presented their case. They haven’t come remotely close to meeting their burden of proof. Now, that being said, if the Senate, later this week, when we vote on witnesses, decides to go down the road to additional witnesses, I think at a minimum, the most important witness for the Senate to hear from is now Hunter Biden.</blockquote>
Asked why John Bolton should not testify, Cruz replied, “I don’t believe the testimony is necessary. The House managers have a burden of proof; a burden of proof to prove their case. They have fallen woefully short. The standard under the Constitution is high crimes and misdemeanors. They have not demonstrated any law was violated, and the president was entirely justified in asking for an investigation of corruption concerning Ukraine and potentially Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.”
Reporter: Is there a shadow over the president if you don’t have testimony in a trial?
Cruz: Look, the “shadow” over the presidency is the last several months of sham proceedings in the House where they only heard from prosecution witnesses and they ignored the very substantial evidence of corruption with the vice-president, going to the very top, potentially of the administration. And by the way, the Obama administration  pointed out the conflict of interest over and over and over again, and so did the press until the press decided to defed the Democrats’ partisan impeachment attacks.
He concluded, “This has been a sham from the beginning; presidents have the authority to investigate corruption.”
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Ted Cruz just went beastmode shredding Hunter Biden and Joe and the journos went bonkers!!! LMAOOOOO <a href="https://t.co/ySrSZ936iO">pic.twitter.com/ySrSZ936iO</a>
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