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Fact-check: Ted Cruz’s “communist and Islamist takeover” of the Democratic Party
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Claim: Sen. Ted Cruz, guesting on the P.A.S. Report ("Ted Cruz on Clarence Thomas, Socialism, and the Midterm Warning Republicans Can't Ignore," 3 Sep 2026, at 17:05), said: "We are witnessing, literally, a communist takeover of the Democrat Party and an Islamist takeover of the Democrat Party."
Verdict: mostly-false (truth score 0.20, confidence 0.80). The direction is real. The tense is false. And the two halves of the sentence are not equally supported.
The case for the claim is stronger than the score suggests, so we start there…
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