Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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“Ted Cruz is a horrible human being, and every day he demonstrates that.”

Have U.S. politics gotten worse because of Donald Trump? Or would Ted Cruz have been just as bad a president?

John Harwood and political scientist Norm Ornstein discuss the “deterioration” of the Republican Party.

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