Ted Cruz, while speaking at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition event on Saturday told members of the audience that “We need to behave like we believe what we’re saying, and that means having the guts to stand and fight.”

Cruz also told members of the audience that GOP leadership needs to “stand together and fight and say under no circumstances are we going fund the 87,000 new IRS agents to harass the American people, and we’re going to take that money and put it on our Southern Border.”

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