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Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator, R-Texas

“In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: Democrats did set a supermajority threshold, but only after Republicans pledged to filibuster the underlying bill, and Republicans unanimously agreed to the voting plan.

Social media posts

“Says New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her country doesn’t have to deal with the “rage of older white men” because “we’ve never allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet here.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: The quote is fabricated. A communications expert in New Zealand made a related comment to The Guardian in 2020, but even that quote is distorted in this social media post.