and oppressed people is attempting to flee a tyrannical regime,

fleeing toward freedom.

But the Texas Democrats are being pulled back to their own state.

This is verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to verdict with Ted Cruz.

I'm Michael Knowles.

I think something's going on in Cuba as well.

We'll get to that a little bit later, but Senator first,

I've got to ask you about those poor Texas Democrats,

there was a voting rights bill going through Texas right now.

The Democrats didn't have the numbers to stop this Republican bill.

So they just left the state.

You know, I got to say it's striking,

and it really is typical of Cuban refugees

that they jump on a private jet with Miller Lite

and basking in national press coverage.

They truly are heroic.

You know, Kamala Harris compared them to the civil rights protesters

on the Edmund Pettis Bridge.

If you take away the cops and the dogs and the Billy clubs

and the bleeding and the broken bones

and you replace it with a private jet and Miller Lite,

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