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Hecklers shouted "he should be shot" during Sen. Ted Cruz's speech at Donald Trump's midterm convention in Dallas when the Texas Republican mentioned a string of prominent Democrats.
Cruz spoke at the convention, which President Donald Trump concocted to bolster Republican support ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. During his speech, Cruz specifically criticized Sharia law, a common attack point from Republicans that argues that Muslims will enforce their ideas on other Americans.
"Hear me now: Sharia law has no place in America," he said to rapturous applause and chants of "USA." "It is fundamentally inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, and we need to stand together to stop it now."
Cruz then proceeded to criticize Twitch streamer Hasan Piker as well as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico and Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
"When Hasan Piker says 'America deserved 9/11,' he means it," Cruz said. "When Mamdani says he wants to "seize the means of production," he means it. When Abdul El Sayed says he has an "obligation" to comply with Sharia law, he means it. And when James Talarico says he wants to "dismantle capitalism," he means it."
In between each of the call-outs of elected officials, a heckler could be heard saying "He should be shot."
Cruz, who ran against Trump and whose father Trump accused of being affiliated with the man who shot President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, did not call out the hecklers and likely did not hear them.
"Now understand, not every Democrat in the House and Senate believes this," he said. "But they are all afraid of these radicals, because that's where the money and the energy and the young people are in the Democrat Party."
Cruz pointed out how almost no Democrats disavowed Graham Platner, the embattled Democratic nominee for Senate who had to drop out amid a Politico report that he sexually assaulted an ex-partner, which Platner denied.
"Why does El-Sayed refuse to disavow Hasan Piker?" he said. "Why does Chuck Schumer stand alongside El-Sayed? Their threats are not simply empty words."
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