Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. The big announcement drop, Senator. Joe Biden announced with a massive live event, huge audience at a sold-out auditorium that he was running for president of the United States of America today.

For reelection, it was a big crowd.

Let's just, just kidding.

No, none of that happened.

It was a video that probably took about 100 hours to edit.

You watched the video center.

Your initial reaction to this lackluster announcement.

Well, they had three minutes for him to read from a teleprompter. I'm sure it took

a hundred takes to get him to read those three minutes. And his three minutes were, let's keep

getting the job done. And I got to say that is a weird message. I mean, you look at the last two years the disaster of what is unfolded under Joe Biden.

Let's take the economy.

We have the worst inflation of our lifetime.

So you have to go back to when you were sparkle in your daddy's eyes and I was little kid, to find a time when the inflation was this bad.

You have crime rates exploding across the country, murder rates, carjacking rates all over the country.

You have the worst illegal immigration in the history of our nation.

You have a relentless assault on our constitutional rights,

on religious liberties, on the Second Amendment, on the right to life.

And then as bad as the domestic policy is, as bad as the foreign policy is,

you have a national security policy that is an utter disaster.

Every single region of the world is worse.

We are facing the first major land war in Europe since World War II.

We are facing China stronger, North Korea stronger, Iran stronger, Cuba stronger,

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