“Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.”
What PolitiFact found
MSNBC footage circulating on social media is real and depicts Boston’s Oct. 18 "No Kings" rally. Similar aerial views of the protest aired Oct. 18 on four Boston-area television stations and one in New Hampshire.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ted Cruz (U.S. Senator, R-Texas) made this claim around 19 October 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 October 2025, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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