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Why Ted Cruz S*cks: A Comprehensive Biography

Behind the Bastards

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Ted Cruz, Did You Refuse to Shake the President's Hand?

Ted Cruz sent out a robocall designed to trick Republican listeners into thinking Marco Rubio supported amnesty. The actual audio of the call was essentially nonsense in Spanish, but it included the wordsMarco Rubio, amnestia, and immagrassion illegal so that English-speaking Republicans who didn't speak Spanish overheard it on the radio would assume it was an ad for Rubio. One of Cruz's attack ads in the election was even banned because it basically blamed Marco Rubio for the San Bernardino terror attacks because he supported immigration reform.

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