Ted Cruz speaks at the RedState Gathering 2015
TED CRUZ SPEAKS AT REDSTATE GATHERING 2015
Ted Cruz discusses all the issues!
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Friends let me introduce to you my good friend the senator from the great state
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of texas candidate for president of the United States my good friend Ted Cruz
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extraordinary that unbelievably kind introduction thank you for your
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leadership let me tell you jim is a fearless conservative fighter in the
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house of representatives in Congress you can pretty much measure how strongly
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you're standing for conservative principles by just how much you need of
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food taster in the members' dining room and I think Jim employees five food
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tasters it is great to be back here you know we had a nice quiet evening and
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Cleveland a couple of days ago
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what an incredible array of candidates for president we had this year
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I have to say look it up and down that stage seeing the young dynamic
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optimistic forward-looking conservatives it was powerful it was inspirational
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have the democrats you know I'm pretty sure that democrats debate consists of
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hillary and the Chipotle clerk that's not fair that's not fair Bernie Sanders
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has entered the race so now the democratic field consists of a wild-eyed
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socialist with ideas that are endangering america's place in the world
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and Bernie Sanders
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statement about the two sides of this debate in the conservative movement
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there is life there is vibrancy there are ten candidates are 17 Canada hundred
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and fifty six candidates on the other side it's like that 70 show they're not
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even having a debate you're hearing their latest thing they will move at
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October November December maybe 2017 will schedule the Democratic primary
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debate actually they did plan to have a debate earlier problem was the
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invitation was emailed Hillary
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there is a reason the life and vibrancy the energy the excitement is with
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conservatives this year all across this country so yesterday I had a rally
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Charleston South Carolina woman come up to me at the rally she said in 2008 I
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voted for Barack Obama she said in 2012 I didn't vote for anyone I was so upset
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I just stayed home and she said in 2016 I'm with you
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what I want to talk about today is this is art i wanna talk to you as leaders of
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the conservative movement's red state is an incredible gathering this is the
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seventh red state this is the seventh time I've been at reds
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I remember the first red state and it'll at Atlanta hotel with a gathering there
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wasn't much bigger than about this right here the men and women who were here
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leaders your bloggers journalists activists your informed thought leaders
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every person sitting here
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touches hundreds touches thousands touches tens of thousands and I know it
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first hand I wouldn't be in the united states senate if it were not for the men
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and women in this room if it were not for the leaders and red state there's a
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reason when I launched my campaign for Senate we did it on a conference call
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with blocks because we understand the power of serious conservative thought
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Lee and you know for a long time the conservative movement we've been
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lamenting for decades
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how come nobody will stand up how come we elect one leader after another after
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another they talk a good game and then when it comes to the fight when the
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shooting stars and up cowering under the deaths this is something that we've said
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over and over and over again we've got to distinguish between campaign
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conservatives on the campaign trail suddenly discover they're the most
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conservative solo ever lift it is amazing what happens on the campaign
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trail have you ever noticed ok last night on Cleveland I'm pretty sure not a
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single person in the debate stood up and said I'm an establishment moderate
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squish
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I stand for nothing
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have you noticed that they run as US that's how they run by the way they say
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if you're actually your unelectable but yet when they're running they understand
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their message doesn't sell men and women in this room can play a critical role
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leading the conservative movement in assessing the records of every candidate
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running I'm gonna suggest you a simple test each of you I would encourage you
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make a list of the ten or twelve most important issues the biggest fights of
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the last several years and you decide based on the issues that matter to you
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whether its fiscal conservative issues are social conservative issues or
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national security issues constitutional issues you make the list and ask of
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every candidate running whether he or she has stood up and led on those issues
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in any meaningful way this is a room and educated serious political observers and
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activists and leaders asked if any candidate here's my list of you stood up
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and fought to stop Obamacare not talked about it but stood in the foxholes
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when incoming was coming back whenever you stood and fought against President
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Obama's illegal and unconstitutional executive amnesty
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shouldn't fight against the debt that is bankrupting our kids and grandkids when
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if you stood and fought to defend the First Amendment free speech and
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especially especially especially religious liberty and I gotta tell you
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at Indiana was a time for choose there were so many republican leaders ran for
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the hills on the second amendment where were you when Harry Reid and Barack
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Obama tried to come after our right to keep and bear arms on the fourth
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amendment what have you done to stop the federal government from seizing the cell
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phone communications and emails of law-abiding citizens on the tenth
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amendment where are you own common core and have you always a policy or did you
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just magically oppose it the day you announce for president
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on marriage are you willing to stand in lead or when the supreme court justices
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violated their oath and issued a lawless decision did you come out with some
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melee mouthed statement about law of the land accepted surrendered move on
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on light when if you stood and fought on light on Planned Parenthood how are you
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leading and are you looking for a meaningless showboat or do you actually
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want leadership to stop the atrocity that is what appears to be an ongoing
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criminal organization of planned parenthood
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on Israel what have you done standing and leading the fight to stand with
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Israel on Isis it radical Islamic terrorism in Iran when had you stood and
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clock the lead that's the test those are my doesn't but I'd encourage each of you
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find your own doesn't that you think of the biggest fights of the day and ask if
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every candidate what's their record what have they actually done leading on those
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issues that's what the men and women in this room can do more effectively than
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anyone else has died down beyond the talking points to the actual records now
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why does it matter so much you know it matters because over and over again we
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keep winning and then we lose we win elections and then the people we elect
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don't do what they say we were told if only you can get the House of
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Representatives things will be different so in 2010 millions of Americans led by
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the men and women in this room rose up we won the house and virtually nothing
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changed then we were told ok the problems the senate you guys don't
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understand it's just a half of a third of the government yet can't do it with
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just the house so we said fine Harry Reid's the problem in 2014 millions of
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Americans rose up in an historic election we won the senate we retired
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Harry Reid as majority leader
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and what exactly has this new republican majority accomplished
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it's actually even worse the next alright I gotta say though and hearing
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nothing I'm reminded of one of those great scenes from The Untouchables where
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robert deniro as component as capone says man stands at the bait with a
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badness hand alone but without his team what is he saying in this case our teams
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playing for the other side
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November 2014 we want historic majorities in both houses what happened
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since then
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happen as the republican
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joined with Harry Reid and passed a trillion dollar chrome the bus plan
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filled with corporate welfare and poor and the republican majority voted to
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fund Obamacare to fund President Obama's executive amnesty to fund Planned
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Parenthood and then republican leadership led the fight to confirm
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Loretta Lynch as attorney general of the united states here's one simple question
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which of those decisions is one iota different than it would have been with
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Harry Reid the democrats in the senate this is why we're frustrated
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and this is why the men and women in this room have such an important role to
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ask if every candidate running don't just tell me how you start out democrats
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particularly in a context that didn't really matter much
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show me when you stood up to your own party show me where you stood up for
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republican leadership and the Washington cartel and stood with the people
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a lot of folks in the media want to convince us be done
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complicated too big you can't change the country they want to tell us that
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everyone here give up go home abandon hope all ye who enter here a minute to
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expand on my closing statement in Cleveland tell you what I intend to do
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on my first day in office if elected president on January 20th 2017 the first
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thing I intend to do is rescind every single illegal and unconstitutional
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executive action taken by Barack Obama
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and that's why we're gonna win you know the president is fond of saying he has a
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phone and he has a pen where you live by the pen you die by the pen it's not just
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been the White House and executive orders that have been lawless the entire
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executive administration has been corrupted by the partisan lawlessness of
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this administration
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if I'm elected president the second thing that I will do on january
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twentieth 2017 isn't struck the Department of Justice to open an
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investigation into Planned Parenthood to prosecute any criminal violations that
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are uncovered
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the rule of law matters the Department of Justice is a fair and impartial
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enforcer of the laws regardless of which party is in power that's how our
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constitution was meant to work the third thing I intend to do on january
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twentieth 2017 is instruct the Department of Justice and the IRS and
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every agency in the federal government that you will cease to day persecuting
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religious liberty in this country
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the Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic charity persecuted for standing for
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their religious faith instead of receiving a legal summons from the Obama
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Justice Department will receive a notice in the mail
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case against them has been dismissed
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and accompanying that will be an invitation for the Little Sisters to
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come to the white house and tell their courageous story to the world
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for thing I intend to do on january twentieth is rip up and rescind this
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catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal
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couple weeks ago i observed at this deal goes into effect the Obama
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administration will become the world's leading global financier of radical
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islamic terrorists in response a little over a week ago President Obama from
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Africa took time out of his busy schedule to attack me directly for
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daring to say such a thing he seemed very dismayed and I do so hate this man
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very dismayed he said that language was too much you can't say that sadly a
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number of republicans have echoed those comments and said the rhetoric is too
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much don't use language like that that's what Mitt Romney tweeted that's what jeb
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Bush's said no no no no no don't say such things
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something right now
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truth is not rhetoric
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know where it is attacked on me from Africa to President Obama actually
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dispute the facts of what I said here is the fax number one iranians today and
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will remain the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism number to get this
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deal goes through over 100 billion dollars will flow directly to her own
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number three of that money billions will be given to Hamas to hezbullah to the
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hutus to radical islamic terrorists around the world now if there are
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hundreds of billions of dollars in the control of the american government that
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go directly to jihadist that he used that money to murder Americans and
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Israelis and europeans incontrovertible if President Obama doesn't like the
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rhetoric that he should stop being the world's leading global financier of
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radical Islamic terrorism that he should stop financing radical Islamic terrorism
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and we will not win
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afraid to speak the truth the truth with a smile to speak the truth from love but
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to speak the truth
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absolute courage that the truth
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January 20th 2017 begin the process to move the United States embassy in Israel
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to jerusalem the one senator no capital of Israel
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and you know candidates for president Republicans and Democrats have promised
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to do that over and over and over again and when they get to the white house one
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after the other after the other doesn't follow through let me give you a very
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simple difference I believe between me and the other folks standing on that
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debate stage in clev with me exactly what you're gonna get and I'm gonna do
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exactly what I told you I would do
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a final point about how we win the media democrats although I repeat myself
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tell us a conservative can they say it over and over and over again here's
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their basic rule anytime you stand up for conservative principles you'll get
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the living daylights beaten it democrats are attacking the media will attack you
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republicans will attack and then they immediately say well if you had the
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living daylights beaten out of you then you can't be elected that quickly
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reduces to weaken only nominate someone who's never stood for conservative
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principles and every time we do that we lose
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Heidi and I spent many months thinking about and praying whether to launch this
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campaign our daughters Catherine and Caroline therefore incent lightly throw
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a young family into the maelstrom that is a political presidential campaign the
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single biggest factor that led us to go forward is is that we have to win this
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race as I look at the rest of the field there a lot of young talented candidates
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who I like who I respect to a friends of mine but I don't see a whole lot of
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candidates who I think can energize and mobilizing inspire and bring back the
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millions of conservative evangelical Christians the reagan democrats the
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young people that we've got to bring back to win
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and the reason we decided to run is that I believe I'm in the best position to
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energize and mobilize and bring back to the polls those millions of
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conservatives and to rebuild that reagan coalition to bring together
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conservatives and evangelicals and libertarians and young people in
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hispanics and women and reagan democrats that's how we win we win standing with
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hard working men and women a populist campaign against the bipartisan
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corruption of Washington
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when we launched the campaign the New York Times said crews cannot win because
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the washington elites despise him
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I kinda thought that was the whole point of the campaign but here's the thing
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that's powerful thats transformation you know the times went on to say ok fine
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maybe the grass roots will be with us but he ain't gonna have any money
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because the lobbyists in the washington cartel they control all the money and
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all the lobbyists or with other candidates running because they're not
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going to rock the boat were in the gravy train all of us filed our first
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fundraising reports a couple of weeks ago out of 17 Republican candidates
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running for president you know which candidate raised the most hard money for
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the campaign
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I'll give you one week to that I didn't do that you did
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we raised 14.3 million dollars in just over three months
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second place was jeb bush at 11.4 million now if anyone would have said
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crews was going out raise every republican candidate including out
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raising jeb bush by three million dollars you said I was stark raving bark
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at the moon once but here's how we did it we had over a hundred and
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seventy-five thousand contributions from all 50 states and all five territories
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the average contribution was $68
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where people from all over the country
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go to change crews . or Ted Cruz . or Ted Cruz not or Ted Cruz dot org here's
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an amazing statistic we have donors and roughly half the zip codes in america
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48.1% that is the power of the men and women in this room that is the power of
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the grassroot if we're going to beat the Washington cartel the only way it's ever
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been done was in 1980 the reagan revolution that came from the people we
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do it together if we stand up together the only for strong enough to turn this
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country around as we the people and that's exactly what we're going to do
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because this is our time to take America back
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China questions for the center line to get a few minutes of your lunch break
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dance to that was not the experience two nights ago for it now so John from
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Leonardtown Maryland our position as a world leader has eroded doors are being
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opened or enemies what will you do
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terms of foreign policy to correct this and you have any thoughts on cuba yes
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we need a strong commander-in-chief the two things that change the fastest with
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a new president our executive action and foreign policy it's worth remembering
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that in 1981 Iran released our hostages that day
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Ronald Reagan was sworn in
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there's a reason when I talked about what I intended to do the first day but
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two of them were very directly focused on foreign policy moving the embassy to
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jerusalem is a statement to the world we will stand by our friends and allies no
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matter the criticism from the intelligencia the United
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and ripping up the iran deal is a powerful statement because look at this
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election in many ways the most important issue in this election both in the
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primary and the general is the threat of a nuclear Iran it's the one threat that
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could murder millions of Americans and I gotta tell you I cannot wheat to stand
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on the debate stage with Hillary Clinton
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and make clear if you vote for Hillary you were voting for Iran to have nuclear
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weapons and if I'm elected president under no circumstances will a nation led
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by a theocratic zealot who leads chants of death to America be allowed to
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acquire the weapons that could murder millions of America
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when it comes to radical Islamic terrorism I think we need to rediscover
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ronald reagan strategy for the cold war we win they lose the next question from
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several people including this one from teheran in Madison Wisconsin the
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government shuts down every weekend wire republican leaders so afraid of the
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fighter plane there because they're not on our side to take a minute to explain
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something because sometimes folks complain how come our leadership isn't
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very good they're unwilling to fight they're not competence none of that
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truth leadership is actually quite effective and quite willing to fight
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they're just not fighting for us for example
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when it comes to cronyism and corporate welfare when it comes to the export
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import bank leaders in both houses will fight ferociously with a night between
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their teeth crawling over broken glass
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why because what they're doing is they're listening in their part of the
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washington cartel the giant corporations getting taxpayer guaranteed loans come
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with wheelbarrows full of campaign checks and so a couple of weeks ago when
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I shared some thoughts about Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
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I was told the same thing that I was told when I share thoughts about around
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that rhetoric you can't say that and the truth is not rhetoric standing up and
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speaking the truth is the truth
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Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid or arm in arm working together to reauthorize the
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export-import bank and to continue the cronyism and corporate welfare of
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washington it's not two parties it's one party the Party of washington the
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McConnell Reid leadership team something like a shutdown let's take the issue of
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Planned Parenthood so in the midst of the highway until I stood with Mike Lee
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and we fought to have an amendment to 50 vote threshold where it could matter to
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actually defund Planned Parenthood we weren't blocked by the democrats for
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doing that we were blocked by Republican leadership
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and I gotta tell you they're fifty four Republican senators and yet when we were
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standing there mike lee and I were standing alone fighting to actually
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defund Planned Parenthood now instead leadership likes to have shovels so we
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schedule a vote with a sixty-vote threshold that we know will lose all the
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republicans vote yes all the democrats vote no we've had ourselves on the back
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and they're doing is they're not actually trying to fight for the issues
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we care about their not fighting to be fun
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not fighting to stop Obamacare they certainly aren't fighting to stop
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executive amnesty for illegal immigration a pass case law or in
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sanctuary cities because the Washington cartel supports bigger government and
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supports illegal immigration and so their standard response anytime you say
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let us use the constitutional powers of Congress to change what's happening the
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democrats say well if you do anything like that we will hold the government
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hostage and shut down the government and the republican leadership says oh never
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mind we'll just cut a deal to grow government instead the problem is
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they're not listening to us we need to change that and the way you change it is
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the grassroot holding all of us
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just noticed the crowd is a good thing the Fire Marshal's attend crew supporter
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so I've got this question from California Florida Georgia in New Jersey
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and it's all the same question you probably given good concise whom this in
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your time in washington have you yet figured out what it means to lead from
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behind
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well sure Republican congressional leadership does it every day on foreign
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policy
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leading from behind means withdrawing from the world
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abandoning our friends and allies imagine for example alright seven years
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ago the first Reds day and that little Atlanta ballroom imagined I would have
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suggested that we were going to see a democratic presidents prime minister
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netanyahu would come to America to address a joint session of Congress and
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the president the vice-president every member of the cabinet would boy touch
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the elected prime minister of israel and the president would refuse to see him at
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the white house every one of you would have said frankly what's being said
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about me know that rhetorics crazy that'll never happen that's black
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helicopter loony stuff you know what that's leading from behind
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have you noticed that every bad actor every enemy of america is stronger after
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six and a half years of the Obama Clinton foreign policy is strong China's
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strong
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China just in a massive half into our federal government records
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Russia just in a massive hack into the Pentagon the day after general Soleimani
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the head of the al-quds forces from Iran return in open violation of the
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sanctions Isis will you recall not long ago the president told us was the junior
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varsity is crucifying Christians of beheading children iran is on the verge
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of acquiring a nuclear weapon
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prime minister netanyahu was right he said the one person telling the truth
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about this Iranian nuclear deal is Rohani
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honey singh we got everything we wanted I saw an editorial cartoon recently that
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sums it up perfectly
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it has come any the ayatollah saying yes to every American and it has John Kerry
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saying can we meet halfway
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leading from behind
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