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Sen. Ted Cruz - September 25th, Hour 2

 Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, joins us to discuss the issues facing the Lone Star state. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man.
That can only mean one thing on this radio program.
All things self-proclaimed Simple Man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly.
All things Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com, including his number one best-selling New York Times new book just out in the last week, Confronting the President's No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden.
I have read it cover to cover.
It is a great book, and you're going to learn a lot if you read it.
Before we get to Mr. O'Reilly and praise him for having yet another number one New York Times best-selling book, by the way, it kills the New York Times to put his name up at number one.
It just kills them.
I want to just play Kamala Harris and highlights of her most radical positions.
And I want to play her on how she would eliminate the filibuster in a statement she made this week, something she wrote on paper she wouldn't do in 2017.
She would eliminate the filibuster for Roe v.
Wade and for the Green New Deal.
And then, of course, we now have a new clip of Kamala 2019 supporting the decriminalization of sex work.
Listen.
Now, on the issue of providing a safe place for sex workers, I am a huge advocate for that, always have been.
Do you think that sex work ought to be decriminalized?
I think so.
I do.
I think that we have to understand, though, that it is not as simple as that.
All right, here to respond to that radicalism and celebrate another number one best-selling book.
Mr. Bill O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
You know, I'm in a pretty good mood today, Hannity.
Thank you for the nice mention, and a lot of that is due to you.
People get the.
No, you wrote a great, you wrote a really good, historically accurate book, and you put a lot of work into it.
And it's kind of interesting, especially during a presidential election.
And I don't think there's been one as nutty as this in our lifetime.
It does add a lot of perspective into what we're going through.
And a lot of people, I have people telling me all the time they're not sleeping at night over this election.
Yeah, and there's more twists and turns to come.
But the book is relevant, confronting the presidents, because Kamala Harris is running the same kind of campaign that the immortal Warren G. Hardy ran.
Warren G. wouldn't duck anybody.
He's waving at you from his porch in Marion, Ohio.
Hey, how you doing?
And Americans overwhelmingly elected him, and he got in.
He was one of the worst guys ever because nobody knew anything about him.
You just heard Kamala, in her own words, her own radicalism on immigration.
By the way, my favorite is she wants free sex change operations and amnesty for illegal immigrants, including those from terror countries with terror ties, $11.5 million free housing, health care, education, food, et cetera.
Her position on the Green New Deal, her position on eliminating private health insurance, decriminalizing drugs, that means for personal use, crack, heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, prostitution, decriminalizing that, decriminalizing illegal immigration.
How does somebody this radical get elected, Bill?
Because she's your best friend and she wants to bring everybody together.
Oh, you mean she's our mamala?
I mean, Drew Barrymore's right.
We need a mamala.
If you watch the frontline documentary last night on PBS, this is the greatest.
I mean, it couldn't get any greater.
She's just swell.
They had 14 anti frontline and no anti-Kamala guests.
So they do this every four years.
They run it down.
Here's the race.
And we're paying $550 million tax dollars a year to fund public broadcasts.
And they put this insult on.
And it's all stacked up.
Kamala's the greatest.
I call her St. Joan of Kamala.
And Trump's the worst.
And anyway, that's why, because people don't pay attention.
But here's something you haven't mentioned much.
And I think that you might put this on your list of threats that Kamala Harris poses.
She supports not letting parents know if their minor children begin medical procedures to change their gender.
Mr. O'Reilly, you don't listen to the show enough because, oh, I mentioned it, and Tim Walz actually implemented it in Minnesota on top of hot feminine hygiene products and boys' bathrooms, which I know you support, right?
No, no, but I put it near the top of the list because this is the classic.
And you know me, I'm not a conspiratorialist.
I don't overstate.
This is the classic Marxist tenet.
Undermine the family.
Allow the state to dictate how your child is raised.
Eliminate all parental rights, Bill.
That's what that does.
And they've done it in California, Minnesota, and you are 1,000% correct.
It's chilling.
If Trump or the Republicans would do a television commercial highlighting just that issue, Trump would win.
Because that should send a chill down the spine of every single American.
You have a president of the United States supporting that.
Unheard of.
Unheard of.
And when you're in confronting the presidents, you'll see that the vice president is by far the most radical left person ever to run for the presidency.
I can't agree with you anymore.
I do think finally, and I've been on this now since she became the presumptive nominee, that all of these radical positions are now slowly permeating into the consciousness of American voters.
Now, we do have early voting that has already begun in a number of states.
We are just a mere 40 days away, Bill, from Election Day.
And I worry 50% of this vote we expect is going to be before Election Day.
And my hope is that people will make an informed decision.
Now, Kamala is going to go on MSDNC tonight.
Any of these issues that we talk about are not going to be brought up.
And we're going to get a Kamala Mamala.
We love you.
We love you.
Joy and freedom.
You know, we're going to get cliches from a big supporter of hers.
And I'm not against partisan talk show hosts, but they claim to be journalists over there at NBC News.
And they're like me.
I'm a member of the press, but I'm a talk show host.
I do do journalism and investigative journalism, and I do opinion, and I do sports and culture.
I'm like an entire newspaper.
They claim to be journalists.
That's one part of being a member of the press.
I'm like the whole newspaper.
They're one part of a newspaper, but they're just like me and they lie about it.
Well, you don't lie about it.
I mean, so I just wanted to take that sentence into context because you know how they are.
They'll take your sentence and twist it around your neck.
No, they lie and say they're journalists, and I'm honest, and I say I'm a talk show host.
That's right.
Did you see Biden on the view today?
Do you happen to see it?
I saw it.
I did.
Want me to play some of it?
Let me just set it up.
So ABC News runs the view.
That's not an entertainment program.
And they bring Biden on.
And the most outrageous, he made two outrageous statements.
Number one, that it was his decision not to continue with the campaign.
I mean, it's just like, and all six of them stand.
They don't say a word.
And number two, that, and this is a quote from him, we had so much success.
It was just staggering.
What?
What success did you have?
Give me one.
Go ahead.
You got a clip on it?
Last night on TV, I don't have that clip.
I do have Joe Biden saying he was delegating to Kamala everything from foreign policy to domestic policy.
I can play that.
And I could also play their spokesperson, Ian Sams, asked four separate times.
I ran it on TV last night, whether or not the country is better off than it was four years ago.
Let me play those back to back.
Just for you, Mr. O'Reilly.
We take requests on this program.
And as vice president, there wasn't a single thing that I did that she couldn't do.
And so I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy.
You say you think she's going to close that gap, but the bottom line here, when you look at a metric like grocery prices, they're up still 20% compared to four years ago.
And Harris was asked recently on the debate stage whether she thinks Americans are better off now than four years ago.
And she didn't directly answer that question.
So I'll ask you, does she think Americans are better off now or not?
Well, I think that she talked pretty openly about the mess that we inherited when President Trump left office and the economy and the crash that happened because of his total mismanagement of COVID and the way that COVID itself created global inflation numbers that were out of control, the way that COVID itself created global inflation numbers that were out of control.
And I'm just going to follow up on the question again.
The choice in the election is also very clear.
I'll ask the question again.
Are Americans, does she think Americans are better off now than four years ago?
Well, I think when people are running for president, they want to see what are you going to do for me?
And it's not a retrospective question.
It's actually a forward-looking question.
Let me just follow up with you because I hear what you're saying, wanting to focus on the future and not the past.
And when you look at this latest poll, and again, you know, I know people have their views of the polls, but this is a credible New York Times Cena College poll.
They actually asked voters about policies from both Trump and Harris that they think could impact them in the future.
And 45% of voters say Trump's policies would actually help people like them versus just 37% for Harris.
That's looking at the future, not just the past here.
What do you say to that, Ian?
Well, again, there's been some Quinnipiac polls just over the last few days that suggest a different picture of the country of people thinking that her economic or immigration or reproductive freedom plans would help them more.
You know, the polls are going to kind of shift around a little bit.
I think.
And then you hear Ian Sams, he's asked four times if we're better off, and he can't answer the question because we all know the answer to the question is we are not better off.
But she says on day one, she's going to fix inflation, immigration, all these problems.
But she had been telling us the border's secure and that we call it Bidenomic.
She said that last year, and we're very proud of it.
And only now is acknowledging what we've all been experiencing, the country's been experiencing, with paying more for everything we buy in every store we go to.
And now, you know, but she's going to fix it on day one.
But day one was January 20th, 2021, Bill.
You know, they all do that.
And so that just goes by me.
But here are the things that offend me as an American now.
All right.
Number one, she was a cheerleader and she said numerous times the southern border was secure.
She did that for more than three years.
Number two, she said numerous times that Joe Biden was at the top of his game with nothing wrong with him.
Now, here's a woman in proximity to the president.
Now, both of those things were, I mean, blatant in your face, in your face, untruths.
And I just don't know how people can, you know, I don't know how the six women at the view can sit there and not even bring those up.
All right, quick break.
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President Trump addressing the issue of illegal immigration today.
And, you know, what a joke.
You know, I remember Lester Holt, and we played it earlier.
Well, you haven't been to the border.
Well, I haven't been to Europe either.
Now, with 39 days to go until Election Day, while early voting is underway, oh, now she's going to, she plans a trip down to the border where she is offering and incentivizing illegal immigrants with free housing, food, health care, education, sex change operations, amnesty.
We have 11.5 plus unvetted Harris Biden illegals in this country.
We have hundreds with terror ties.
We have dozens and dozens of dead Americans that have been murdered by Harris Biden illegals.
And we have, you know, hundreds.
Well, we have also on top of it, we have dozens of Americans with murdered, dozens raped, hundreds of terrorists in the country, and other hundreds of Americans victims of violent crime.
We have gangs taken over cities like New York City and Chicago, other places around the country where things have gotten so bad, like Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado.
The front line of this has been in Texas.
You know, as President Trump said in a speech earlier in North Carolina today, he doesn't need to go to the border.
She needs to go back home to Washington and go into Joe Biden's office because with a stroke of a pen, they undid all of the successful Trump era policies.
And with a stroke of the pen, they can bring them back.
But she's not going to do that.
This is a photo op because the issue of immigration and forget about everything else.
They have allowed unvetted illegals, gang members, murderers, rapists, violent criminals, and people who are terror ties in our country.
And the cost is secondary, which is in the billions and billions of dollars.
Anyway, joining us now, he's been on the front lines of protecting and making the country aware of the dangers at the border.
You know, I go back to the early days of the Biden-Harris administration.
And if it wasn't for Senator Ted Cruz, you know, getting videos and access to these kids that were in these overcrowded cages that they built, we never would have been able to show you.
And this has been going on, but for three plus years, they lied to the American people.
Kamala Harris lied repeatedly, said the border's secure, the border's closed.
Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden did the same.
It was anything but true.
But now she says on day one, she's going to secure the border and fix inflation.
After saying Bidenomics, we call it Bidenomics, and we're proud of it.
Senator Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott have been fighting for the people of Texas and fighting for the rest of the country as well.
They find themselves in court constantly to protect the people of Texas.
And what is the thanks that Senator Cruz gets, you know, but hundreds of millions of dollars by a Kamala, 100% Nancy Pelosi voter for four years in the U.S. Congress running against them for Senate, and they're pouring money just to go after Senator Ted Cruz.
He joins us on the program.
Senator, you know, nobody besides you and Governor Abbott, and I don't know, you both have worked in tandem together so well, to be honest, you on the federal level, he on the state level.
And I know that you have been fighting the Harris Biden administration on this issue now for over three and a half years, and the thanks you get is what, to become the number one targeted senator in terms of the money being thrown against you and these negative ads that they look, negative ads work or else they wouldn't spend hundreds of millions of dollars against you.
But, you know, you find yourself in a tight race as a result, which is just heartbreaking to me.
Well, Sean, it's great to be with you.
You are right in everything you said about the invasion at our southern border, that Kamala Harris wants this invasion.
She wants the 11.5 million people coming here illegally.
It's the worst in our nation's history.
In Texas, we're paying the price.
In Texas, we see the dead bodies of migrants every day who die crossing illegally into this country.
In Texas, we see the children, the little boys and the little girls, brutalized by human traffickers.
In Texas, tragically, we see the women who are repeatedly raped by illegal immigrants that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have released.
And this is today's Radical Democrat Party.
And you were right that my opponent, Colin Allred, has been on the radical left from day one in Congress.
He's voted for open borders over and over and over again.
As you noted, he voted his first four years in Congress.
He voted with Nancy Pelosi, not 95% of the time, not 98 or 99% of the time, but 100% of the time, over and over and over again for open borders.
But, you know, what the Democrats are doing is fundamentally dishonest.
Kamala Harris right now, she's going down to the border pretending to be tough on the border, despite the fact that she was the border czar in charge of creating this invasion.
Colin Allred, Colin Allred has voted over and over and over again against securing the border.
He's voted against the border wall, not once, not twice, but three separate times.
And Sean, here's what Colin Allred says.
He says that if you think securing the border is important, that you are a racist.
And in fact, he refers to the border wall as, quote, that racist border wall.
He has pledged to personally tear down, quote, that racist border wall.
And yet, you know what he's doing?
Right now, he's running millions of dollars of TV ads with him posing in front of the thing he calls that racist border wall.
It's fundamentally dishonest, but with $100 million from Chuck Schumer and George Soros, he's hoping he can deceive the voters of Texas.
Let me ask you this, Senator, if I can, because I think this is very important.
So you've got this race going on.
When is your debate with this guy over coming up?
It'll be October 15th, so it'll be the week before early voting.
He's been hiding in Joe Biden's basement.
He's not been doing press interviews.
He's running away from it from his record, but we will have one debate where, look, what I'm trying to do is lay out my record versus his record.
I have spent 12 years as the leading champion for securing the border, fighting for 30 million Texans every single day in the Senate.
And the Democrats are desperately trying to pretend that Colin Allred's record is my record.
And look, when you have so much money coming against you, the only way to communicate is you've got to be able to get on TV and tell the truth.
And that takes resources.
And so I want to ask your listeners, please go to Tedcruz.org right now.
I need your help.
Chuck Schumer has put a bullseye on the state of Texas.
He's been explicit on his number one target in the country.
And so I'm asking you, please go to Tedcruz.org, give $10 or $25 or $50 or $100, or maybe you can even give more because the money that is flooding in against us is massive.
And the polling in the last three weeks, there have been multiple polls that show this is a three-point race, that show this is a two-point race or even a one-point race.
Last week, there was a poll that showed me losing this race.
It showed radical Democrat Colin Allred leading by a point.
So I need your help.
I need you to go to Tedcruz.org and help me give the resources to counteract the lies that Schumer and Soros are paying for.
Well, I mean, I can't believe the ⁇ I don't know why this happens to you every six years.
I mean, you know, look at what has happened.
I mean, finally, it was like after the race, it's the veneer of Beto Bozo O'Rourke that it finally came off and people in Texas began to realize, oh, we made the right decision keeping Ted Cruz.
This guy's nuts.
And, you know, why does it take all of this effort and hard work on your part when these people, these positions are out there?
I guess it's so expensive because you've got to buy in Dallas.
You've got to buy in Texas.
I'm sorry, in Houston.
You've got to buy in Austin.
You've got to buy, you know, in all these big cities.
And the media buys are so expensive in a state as large as Texas.
No, we have a massive media market.
There are actually 23 different media markets in Texas, so it's incredibly expensive to communicate.
And look, I'll tell you that the reason why they're coming after me like this, it's not complicated.
If you are a partisan Democrat, after Donald Trump, there is nobody on the planet you want to beat more than me.
And so every radical leftist in New York or Chicago or San Francisco, they give to my opponent.
You know, at the Democrat convention in Chicago, my opponent spoke there, and his remarks were eminently forgettable.
But at the end of it, the entire stadium spontaneously burst into a chance of beat Ted Cruz.
I was the only elected official who got that treatment.
I got to tell you, Sean, I'm pretty proud of that because these people are trying to destroy this country, and they see me as standing in the way of what they want to do.
And it's why, you know what?
Colin Allred raised over a million dollars in the 24 hours that followed that because you had 20,000 Democrat delegates that were giving him money.
And it's why I need Texans and Americans across the country to say, we're not going to let these radicals take Texas.
We're not going to let these radicals take the country over the cliff.
And it's why I need folks to go to Tedcruz.org.
This is a very real fight.
It's a dogfight, and it's going to go right until election day.
So I'm asking you, please come to tedcruise.org.
I need your help.
I need your support.
Have you ever in your life, did you ever imagine somebody as radical as Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would ever be running for office?
I mean, you know, I focus a lot on Kamala Harris and her radical positions.
I mean, now we know she wants to decriminalize prostitution, decriminalize drugs for personal use, and that would even include hard drugs like crack and heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.
We know she wants sex change operations and amnesty on top of housing, health care, education for free and free college education.
But then when you got Tim Walz, he wants Venom products in boys' bathrooms and school and literally sex reassignment procedures to be able to be completed and worked on with children without any parental consent, which is another insanity.
You're going to add the new Green Deal and eliminate the filibuster insanity.
You're going to add the eliminate private health care and government health care for all insanity.
And they never get called out on it, Senator.
And it's frustrating to me.
I think it's beginning to penetrate into the consciousness of the American people and the people in Texas.
I hope I'm right.
If I'm not, I mean, America will be unrecognizable, in my view, in four years.
Look, these people are radicals.
I've served with Kamala Harris since the day she got elected to the Senate.
She has been on the radical left from day one.
She has the single most liberal voting record of any senator.
She's to the left of Bernie Sanders, to the left of Elizabeth Warren.
Now, look, I served with Bernie and Elizabeth.
That ain't easy to do.
There's not much space to their left, but Kamala managed to find it.
And so she has, you know, you and I talked about this last night on your TV show, that she explicitly supported taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegal aliens in prison.
Now, I got to admit, that actually sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit.
It's so bad that if SNL was willing to make fun of Democrats, that's what you would write in a skit, but that's actually the position she supports.
You look at Colin Allred, my opponent.
He voted in favor of boys competing in girls' sports and boys going into girls' restrooms, boys going into girls' locker rooms and going into their changing rooms.
Now, that's not right.
We need to protect our girls.
We need to protect women's sports.
And yet, the radical Democrats, women have no rights in their worldview.
Our daughters have no right not to have a biological man naked in the changing room with them.
He happily voted, let him in and forget protecting the rights of girls and women.
That's just wrong.
It really is.
I will tell you that there's so much at stake here.
How do you feel as you, I never, I guess I'm so into it, and I read every poll and I read every, I listen to every prognosticator out there, and my gut tells me that her momentum has completely stopped.
And I do get the sense that it's getting and beginning to penetrate into people's minds.
What's your feel about where the American people are on her now as she avoids and ducks and dodges and hides her real positions?
We've got about 40 seconds.
Yeah, look, I hope that is right.
She's desperately trying to run away from her record.
She doesn't want the American people to know her record.
She's trying to pretend to be Donald Trump.
She's for the border wall.
She's for border security.
She's for no taxes on tips.
I'm just waiting for her to get a bright red MAGA hat and dye her hair blonde.
I mean, it is fundamentally deceptive.
My opponent, Colin Allred, is doing the same thing.
He's trying to pretend his record is my record.
And I need help to communicate the truth to Texans.
So I just want to close by saying, please come to TedCruze.org.
I need your help right now.
This rate is razor-thin, and Schumer and Soros at Kamala would celebrate.
They would pop champagne if they flipped Texas and beat me.
So I need you to come to Tedcruz.org and stand with me to defend our nation.
I'm asking, I will tell you, you have been one of the most effective senators in the U.S. Senate.
We really appreciate all your hard work, and I know the people of Texas will come through in the end.
Anyway, we appreciate you being with us, Senator Ted Cruz.
Thank you.
All right, quick break, right back.
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