Thread by @tedcruz

1/x Sure.

- First, the Dem party founded the KKK.

- Then the Dem party wrote Jim Crow laws.

- Then the Dem party filibustered the Civil Rights Act.

https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1660995725298225152

2/x - Today, the Dem part filibusters school choice—trapping millions of Black kids in failing schools.

- Today, the Dem party pushes abolishing the police, which results in many more Black lives murdered.

- Today, every Dem senator voted against my bill to stop DC from… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

3/x - The Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery.

- Our first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln, who won the Civil War and ended slavery.

- It was Republicans who voted for the civil Rights Act in a much higher percentage than racist Dems.

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- Today, we produced the lowest African-American unemployment EVER, under the Trump economic boom.

- Today, we produced the lowest African-American poverty levels EVER, under the Trump economic boom.

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- Today, (in 2017) I passed the largest expansion of federal school choice EVER (making 529 plans cover K-12), over the objection of ever single Senate Dem.

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- Also, just two years ago, the Dem governor of Virginia had put the photo of A MAN DRESSED AS A KKK KLANSMAN on his personal yearbook page.

- And today, the sitting Dem President—Joe Biden—gave in 2011 a flowery eulogy for an “Exalted Cyclops” of the KKK.

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- And to add to all that, the Dem party aggressively supports open borders—which has led to the deaths and brutal assaults of thousands of Hispanics, and @AOC somehow can’t seem to find her White pantsuit to cry over their suffering.