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good evening god bless the great state of Oklahoma
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I'm very sorry not to be there with you tonight I had intended to be there
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but unfortunately Senate Democrats have blocked all amendments right now shut
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down the process in the senate
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and so all the members the senator trapped in Washington DC
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likely through the weekend trust me I would much
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much rather be with you but I do want to take the chance to share with you
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a few words about to miss all of us understand that our countries in crisis
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I wanna tell you that america is waking up
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millions of people all over the country realize we can't keep doing
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what we're doing you know today
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for the first time in history a majority of Americans
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believe that our kids will have a worse life then lead I think the central issue
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in the next election
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is going to be reigniting the promise of america
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getting back to that fundamental promise that our kids would have a better life
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and their kids with a better life made how do we do that had only reignite the
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first of all we bring back jobs and growth and opportunity
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we get back to an economy that is growing where small businesses are
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and people are able to achieve the American dream that comes from the
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the men and women here understand cause and effect every time the federal
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government pursues outta control spending
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and taxes and regulation the result is economic stagnation
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and misery in the ladies on the flip side
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every time we pursue tax reform and regulatory reform
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the result has been incredible economic growth
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we saw that in the nineteen twenties we saw in the nineteen sixties
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we saw the 1980s tax reform reducing the burden
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that is strangling small businesses I think the simplest
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is we need to adopt a simple flat tax
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what every American can fill out his or her taxes
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on a postcard and only do that
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we need to abolish the IRS
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the second key is regulatory reform polling pack
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the harming your locusts that have descended on small businesses
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crushing jobs reining in the EPA which is outta control
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and destroying jobs all over america unleashing
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our energy sector you know Texas and Oklahoma share a great deal in common
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are two states agree on just about everything well except football
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energy is something that ties us together you know I grew up in the
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when I was a kid my parents were small business owners
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they owned a seismic data processing company in the oil and gas industry
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i've introduced in the united states senate legislation the American energy
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the broadest the most comprehensive the most serious legislation
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to remove the federal barriers to developing
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are tremendous energy resources to remove the barriers to make sure number
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the federal government cannot regulate or prohibit
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fracking number two to build the Keystone pipeline
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open up the barriers to building pipelines
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across our country in addition
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the federal regulations that are standing in the way of new refineries
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eliminating the barriers that are closing of
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access to federal lands access to federal waters
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opening up new federal lands and waters exploration getting rid the barriers
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that are strangling our coal industry
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eliminating the ban on the export crude oil
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allowing us streamlining
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the exporter liquid natural gas taking all of this to
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unleash the American energy Renaissance and in doing so
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enable the private sector to continue creating
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millions high-paying jobs and I'll tell you the single most important regulatory
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reform we need to repeal
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every word Obamacare we need to
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instead adopt common sense health care reform
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that empowers patients
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that keeps federal give government bureaucrats from getting in between
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Austin are doctors we need health insurance that is personal
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portable and four the second key to reigniting the promise of america
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is we need to defend our constitutional rights
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hola we need to defend the First Amendment free speech
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and especially religious liberty I have been proud to spend over two decades
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fighting to defend religious liberty over and over and over again
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and I will never ever ever
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shot from standing up in defending the religious liberty
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every American we defend the Second Amendment the right to keep and bear
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we need to defend the fourth and fifth amendment our rights to privacy
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keeping the federal government at the lives of law-abiding citizens
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and we need to defend that tenth amendment
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and that means keeping the federal government added the areas that properly
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to the states areas like education and we need to repeal
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every word common core
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we need to defend the rule of law we need it
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and President Obama's lawlessness and we need to raise send
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President Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty
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if I'm elected president that very first thing I intend to do in January 2017
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is wrists and every single illegal and unconstitutional executive action
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that has been taken by President Obama the third key
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to reigniting the promise of america
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as we need to restore american leadership in the world
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for six years we've seen the consequences
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up the Obama Clinton foreign policy
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leading from behind does not
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work instead the president
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who boycotts prime minister netanyahu imagine america standing
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unapologetically alongside the nation Israel
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imagine a commander in chief
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who stands and says we will defeat
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radical Islamic terrorism and we will
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call it by its name imagine a president who makes clear
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under no circumstance will we allow Iran
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to acquire nuclear weapons that's how we turn things around
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now many have you might be saying how do we get that
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how does that happen well the only way to do it is if it comes
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from the people the sad reality is there an awful lot
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a politicians including a lot of republicans who have no intention
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repealing Obamacare no intention have adopting a flat tax no intention
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appealing executive amnesty or abolishing the IRS
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the way to get that done I intend to make
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2016 a referendum on repealing Obamacare
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abolishing the IRS you know I think the central question in 2016
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in the republican primaries gonna come down to one word: trust
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have recanted is gonna say here she
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is conservative not a one of them you have you will not hear speaker this week
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a stand in front of the UN says you know
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have an establishment moderate I don't really stand for much of anything
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everyone will say over and over again how conservative they are
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let me suggest a test that every one of us should apply
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every candidate who stands in front of us think up the dozen biggest fight to
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the last couple years
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if you say you oppose
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when he stood up and fought to stop it if you say you oppose the debt and the
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debt ceiling that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids show me when did you
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pot to stop it if you say you oppose the president's on constitutional executive
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when you've stood up too far to stop it he say you support the First Amendment
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religious liberty show me where you stood up and fought
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where were your on Indiana where were your
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in arkansas be say you support the second amendment
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where were your when President Obama tried to pass is unconstitutional gun
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if you say you support the fourth and fifth amendment privacy
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show me where you stored in five to protect our rights
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if you say you support the tenth amendment and you oppose Common Core
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show me where you stood and fought on those principles
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if you say you stand for life and marriage
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show me where you stood show me where you've walked that walk
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if you say you support our friend and ally the nation and Israel
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show me your record I'm standing and fighting alongside Israel
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over and over and over again if you say
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you oppose radical Islamic terrorism you oppose Iran getting nuclear weapons
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show me where you've stood and let
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you know my time in the senate have really tried to do two things
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tell the truth and number two
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do I said and I gotta tell you
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the reaction we are seeing is incredible two months ago that we launched our
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presidential campaign
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the energy the excitement has been breathtaking
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you right after launching the campaign Heidi and I took our daughters
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we went barnstorming across Iowa across new hampshire across South Carolina
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every place we went was standing room only
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the local press reported that are crowds were larger in many instances
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double the size and the other candidates in the race a local reporters couldn't
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in response to our candidacy the New York Times explained
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crews cannot win because the washington elites
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I kinda thought that was the whole point in the campaign if you want
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someone to go to Washington and fiddle around the edges if you think things are
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going just great washington
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and we don't need real change more than I
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you guys but if you think Washington is fundamentally broken and corrupt
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career politicians in both parties have stopped listening to the American people
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if you wanna bring power our washington and back
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to we the people that's what our campaign is about
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and let me tell you the kind of energy and excitement were saying the New York
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we couldn't win because the washington elites control the money and so yes
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the grassroots might be with us but the washington elites which shot of the
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they'd all be with another candidate in this race we launch the campaign in
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with one week to go in the first fundraising core we set a goal
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we wanted to raise one million dollars week
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now frankly I thought that was a pretty audacious goal
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I wasn't sure we could do it I'm sorry to tell you we failed in that
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I'll instead of raising a million dollars in a week
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we raised a million dollars in one day by the end to the week we had raised
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over 4.3 million dollars
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that consisted of 51,000 contributions
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people in all 50 states who went to Ted Cruz .org
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and contributed supported the campaign over 95 percent of the contributions
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at 10 crews .org were hundred dollars or less
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4.3 million in the opening week is more
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than any republican candidate in the opening week has raised
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in modern times double what Mitt Romney raised in 2012
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more than double with john mccain raised in 2008
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the strength that this campaign are millions of courageous conservatives
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across this country
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painting in pale pastels reagan was right
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if we want to win in 2016 we need a pain in bold colors
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not pale pastels we need to bring back the millions of conservatives
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who stayed home in 08 who stayed home in 2012
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we need to bring people face back and we've got to reassemble
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the old reagan coalition we gotta bring together conservatives
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and libertarians and evangelicals and young people in hispanics
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and african-americans and women and reagan democrats
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that's what we're seeing that is coming together for this campaign
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I'm honored and thrilled by the tremendous support we're seeing in
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and the support we're seeing across the country men and women who recognize
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what we're doing doesn't make sense we gotta change path we gotta get back
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to the free market principles and to the constitutional liberties that made
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well as I said I'm sorry I'm not there with you today I wish I could be with
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hug your neck visit with you listen to you put in my place
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you'll get to hear something better instead of me
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you're gonna get to hear from my dad pastor Rafael Cruz
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my entire life my dad has been my hero
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my dad was born in Cuba as a teenager he fought in the Revolutionary he was
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and tortured as a teenager in cuba my father fled Cuba in 1957 he came to
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he couldn't speak English yeah just two hundred dollars in his underwear
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his first job was washing dishes making fifty cents an hour
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any work full time he paid his way through school
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he went on to start a small business no oil and gas industry
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today my dad's a pastor living just outside a dallas
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my whole life my father's been my here you're gonna see why
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now tell you what I find most extraordinary about his story
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how commonplace yes every one of us
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we have a story just like is in our background whether it's us our parents
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our great great grandparents
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all a bus we had two children those who risk everything for free
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that is the fundamental DNA above what it means to be an American
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to value Liberty an opportunity above all else
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and that's why I'm so optimistic that's why I'm so confident
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I am optimistic because it each and every one have you
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rising up as courageous conservatives saying
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we will not give up on this great nation when I was a kid my dad used to say to
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over and over again when we lost our freedom in cuba
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I had a place to flee to if we lose our freedom here
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where we go that's why we're fighting today there is no place to go
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and together as we rise up we will not lose our freedom
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together we will preserve this last best hope
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for mankind I'm very proud to introduce
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my hero my father pastor Rafael Cruz
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