TED CRUZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AT THE TAKE BACK AMERICA PRESIDENTIAL FORUM
Ted Cruz at the Heritage Action Take Back America Presidential Forum in South Carolina
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Senator Cruz, welcome and your first question will come from Daddy god bless
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the great state of South Carolina Cruz back in 2007 Barack Obama said he was
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running for president to tell your corporate lobbyists that their days of
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setting the agenda in Washington are over that obviously has not happened you
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spoken a lot about the so-called washington cartel how do you actually
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overcome its influence if Congress doesn't want to play along well that's a
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great question you know if you look at the washington cartel that's the term I
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use for career politicians in both parties that get in bed with the
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lobbyists and special interests and grow and grow and grow cover if were gonna
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break the Washington Park tell the only way to do it is we gotta take it on and
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we've gotta bring power out of washington and back to the people
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and I'll say two things in regard to that number one we've done it before
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when was the last time we beat the Washington cartel and I'll submit it was
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nineteen eighty the reagan revolution now the Washington cartel despise ronald
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reagan and you look at what happened in the late seventies all across this
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country men and women came together from the grassroots many of the men and women
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here in the thirties rose up like a tidal wave and turn this country around
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what my campaign is working to do is the same thing
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build a grassroots army here in South Carolina and across the country to take
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power out of washington and bring it back to we defeat
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and I make a final point on this
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if you look at the debate stage weather in California cleaver you see the
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candidates standing suddenly everyone is standing up to the washington cartel
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that's fabulous they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery have you
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noticed that the washington establishment they tell us over and over
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again every time they run they run as a concern they were on as one of us not a
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single person on that day and California said i'ma squishy establishment moderate
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I stand for nothing and yet they say it here actually one of us you can't win
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they're convinced every person in this stadium is unelectable if you're really
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a conservative you'll really stand up to Washington your unelectable with a test
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I think we ought to apply to each of those men and women standing on the
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stages that's great you're adopting rhetoric today against Washington if you
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want to be an outsider fabulous show me where you stood and fought against
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career politicians in both park
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in order to get things done an effective president needs to have good
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relationship with congress some reportedly said you don't have good
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relationships with members of your party or the democratic party in congress what
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do you say to people who don't think the president crews to be effective in the
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atmosphere between you and your fellow senators well Michael listen i I will
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agree with if you're looking for someone to go along to get along if you think
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Washington is doing great we need to keep going in the same direction just
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kind of fit around the edges
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suggest you we've had way too many Republicans whose number one virtue is I
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get along great with them right now republican leadership in washington
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seems to be competing for who can surrender faster and more ostentatiously
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to Barack Obama the premise that an effective president is someone whose
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blood it busy buttons placebo buddies with the opposing party Friday gonna
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have a field day with that I would point for the Presidency of Barack Obama if
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you're a leftist if you actually believe in socialism if you believe in
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diminishing America if you believe and status control over our live Barack
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Obama has been the most successful leftist president in history and left
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Obama doesn't spend a whole lot of time but winning with congressional
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Republicans if we turn this around when it hit nominator elect a Republican
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president but will simply manage the decline of this country
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one Republican should nominate a candidate as committed for conservative
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principles as Barack Obama is too liberal
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health care plans about what to do after Obamacare is repealed some of them have
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a tax credit of people buy health insurance
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some uses standard deduction on a policy areas complicated as health care the
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details matter what are the details of your replacement for Obamacare let's
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talk about it into pieces replacement for Obamacare I wanna talk first about
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getting rid of Obamacare and replace now why do I start with getting rid of
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three election Barack Obama was elected two of them
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2010 and 2014 the number one issue was repealing Obamacare and we want historic
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tidal wave landmark election in the middle election 2012 we thought out and
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nominate the one person on the planet who it actually designed and implemented
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a plan just like Obamacare literally there are 7 billion people on the face
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of planet Earth we coulda walked up to anyone we coulda said sir had you
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designed and implemented a plan like Obamacare No
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2012 we got clobbered now what's happening in 2016
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you know if you look at that stage in california those eleven candidates there
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most of them never utter the words Obama can I promise you if you do not campaign
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on repealing Obamacare you ain't gonna repeal Obamacare
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the only way we're appealing if we take on the Washington cartel I intend to
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make 2016 a referendum on repealing every word of Obamacare and adopting a
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and that's how you break the Washington cartel if you repeal Obamacare it should
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come out of 2016 with a mandate from the people cutting a change the incentives
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of politicians in Washington you know there's an old joke that politics is
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my wife says I resembled everybody the way you break the cartel if you make it
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politically more risky for elected politicians to do the wrong thing it is
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to do the right thing we make this election a referendum question let me
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get to that but it's important to start with that Frederick it because most of
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the other candidates aren't willing to fight the fight to repeal Obamacare now
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once we repeal it we absolutely need common-sense health care reform it needs
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to expand competition it needs to empower patients and it needs to
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disempowered government bureaucrats from getting in between us and our dog and
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let me give three specific policy proposals that reflect those principles
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number one we need to allow people to purchase health insurance across state
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that create a crew fifty-state national marketplaces drives down costs if you
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want more activist you want more toy and lower costs
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what is Obamacare do it's less choice and higher to expand health savings
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account so people can save an attractive advantage way for help caring and her we
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need to make health insurance portable so if you lose your job
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it goes with you from job to job about the tax credit proposal that someone put
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out there some conservative some republicans think that we need a
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refundable tax credit to help Americans buy health insurance do you support a
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refundable tax credit as part of a replacement to Obamacare likely if you
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know there had been a lot of ideas put forth by think-tank by various thinkers
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in terms of replacements and tax credit i'm open to considering using the tax
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code as long as it's consistent with those principles that I laid out in
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powering patients I want the person picking your doctor to be you and not a
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government government bureaucrats and repairs on Wednesday night you said that
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you were graded your support of John Roberts confirmation to the Supreme
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Court we all know to be difficult to identify and appoint judges to that
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court and so one of your proposals is that judicial retention elections on as
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a check on those permanent appointment wouldn't have no idea like this
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politicized judiciary would not make them unlikely to go against Detroit area
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listen i I wish it were the case that we didn't need fundamental reform of the
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court if the justices were doing their jobs if they were following the law you
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wouldn't need fundamental reform something like traditional re-elected
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but if you have judges behaving like politicians making policy decisions that
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they have no authority under the Constitution to do then they cannot
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expect to be exempt from the authority of we the people
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and Michael expand on this point as well as this is a great illustration think
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about the debate this week in California if you asked all eleven candidates what
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kind of judges will you appoint to the court every one of them would stand up
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and say I will appoint strict constructionist who won't legislate from
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the bench they'll say that word for word those are the talking points every one
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of their campaigns is given every Republican has said that for forty years
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let's look at the record you know democrats a bad almost a thousand when
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it comes to Supreme Court nominees every Supreme Court nominee they put for work
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boats like a radical leftist nutcase
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Republican about 500 but half of republican supreme court justices
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actually honor their oath to defend the Constitution the other half are
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screaming crying wreck disasters was a republican nominee bill Brennan was a
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Republican nominee John Paul Stevens David Souter harry blackmun who authored
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roe versus wade was a republican nominee you remember the old Pogo cartoon we
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have met the enemy and they have it's important to understand how that happens
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I mentioned in the debate to moments in time that would particularly important
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number one in 1990 George Herbert Walker Bush had in one room
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David Souter and in another room heated Jones the rock-ribbed conservative on
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the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals George Herbert Walker Bush picked davidson
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fast-forward fifteen years to 2005 George W Bush had in one room John
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Rogers and in another room my former boss Mike looting the rock-ribbed
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conservative in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals a man who was justice scalia's
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very first law clerk George W Bush picked John right now it's worth
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understanding why they did it it's not that they were secretly desiring I want
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some big government liberal it would both David Souter and John Roberts they
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didn't have a paper trail they'd lived their whole lives they've never written
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or said anything to prove they were a conservative and both president bush's
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said gosh if we nominate a conservative will have a fight the democrats will
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oppose us the media will criticize us and Republicans will get nervous so
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let's nominate someone who's never said or done anything to prove their
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conservative every time we do that we get burned
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suggest to you the difference between me and the other very very fine men and
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women who are running for president is when push comes to shove when it comes
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to the moment to make the decision whether it is really taking on Obamacare
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whether it is standing up to Amnesty whether it is actually defunding Planned
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Parenthood or whether it is standing up and putting a principled conservative
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jurist on the Supreme Court the difference between me and the other
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candidate is that i'm gonna do what I told you I would
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to characterize your position that the left has politicized the American
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judiciary we should respond in kind isn't that throwing in the towel on a
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pretty important part of the constitutional separation of powers in
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Michael let's be clear we shouldn't politicize the judiciary let me give an
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example I'll give an example of a policy matter I care passion school choice
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school choice is the civil rights issue the 21st century we are to be willing to
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fight and to go and every african-american community every
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Hispanic community and say every child in america has a right to a quality
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education regardless of race ethnicity well Thursday
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now Michael a part of the united states senator if I'm president we have never
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seen a president fight for school choice the way I thought I would be perfectly
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clear no supreme court could issue of Rolling demanding school choice and
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every school in America I agree with that policy position but the place to
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advance that policy position is in the elected legislators that are accountable
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to the people know our judges shouldn't be political they should follow the
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constitution then retrieved on wavering Governor Haley back onto the stage
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Carolina we welcome you it's a great day to be in South Carolina and South
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Carolina 10 a.m. at lots of fun things to talk about but i wanna go back to the
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fact that your family emigrated from Cuba and this president has dramatically
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changed the relationship with the United States has with cuba what would that
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relationship look like under President crews well governor you're right and and
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what Obama has done with cuba is actually consistent with what he's done
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enemies of the United States across this country for six and a half years we've
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abandoned and alienated our friends and allies whether it was
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the United Kingdom by sending her children bused back right when Obama got
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elected or whether it is Israel with this administration being the most
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anti-israel administration in history of this country as a foreign minister of a
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senior ally of ours said to me it's hard to be friends with america under this
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president but at the same time this president responds to enemies of America
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with weakness and appeasement whether it is Putin whether it is my sis whether it
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is around or whether it is Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba
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what Obama cuba deal does is send billions of dollars to to communist
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dictators that are oppressing their their citizens that are exporting
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terrorism across Latin America and there are ninety miles off the coast of
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America if I'm elected president on the day I'm sworn into office every two-bit
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dictator across the global now that the days of of apologizing for America the
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days of bowing and scraping the dictator
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that's the days of appeasing radical islamic terrorists are over it is worth
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remembering that is released our hostages but Ronald Reagan was sworn
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into office and if I'm elected the world will know america
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