Ted Cruz

Listen, if you're walking home at night and you get mugged and beaten up, you're not typically embarrassed or ashamed to admit, I got mugged and beaten up.

Someone stole my wallet.

Sexual assault, and particularly sexual assault for kids, the guilt, the self-loathing, the fear, the perceived stigma, the shame.

So many victims are...

trapped in silence and never report their crimes and and so there is a power not just for the survivor but but for everyone else who's been a victim who who has not been able to

To own their truth.

And, you know, I don't like language like that.

Own their truth sounds a little new agey for me.

It's not the way I normally speak.

Survivors hold the truth.

And here it is right.

I don't think someone has their truth on whether two plus two is four.

But your life and your experience, no one should take away, particularly from a child...

The ability to tell your story and and and it's and I'll tell you, look, Trey's law would not have been a law in Missouri, Elizabeth, without your leadership.

It would not have been a law in Texas.

It would not have been a law.

I mean, you have devoted a lot of time to fighting for this nationwide.

I didn't realize that when she said that.

I assumed she had said it previously.

I did not realize she had not.