Ted Cruz
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She's cheering for America and I'm cheering for her.
And I don't give a damn if she votes for Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
She's an American and I'm proud to cheer her on.
Well, because of my background, because I was wanted by the Chinese government back in 1989, and after I came to America, I also continued to organize protests in front of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, some protests and hunger strikes in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C.
The Chinese government
never let me go and continued to spy on me.
And before the Winter Olympic Games in 2022, I was, you know, I got a phone call from somebody who claimed to be from the US Olympic Committee and wanted copies of my passport and Alisa's passport.
And then the FBI informed me that the Chinese government is spying on me.
And of course, I was concerned about Alisa going to China to compete.
Of course.
And listen, this man loves his daughter.
And I got to say, Alyssa's Olympic gold performance, it was beautiful.
I'm not particularly into figure skating.
I got to say she did a great job.
gorgeous performance.
There was a sense of joy and abandon in watching it that was really fabulous, and it made you really happy for her.
It made you cheer her on.
There's a great image I love, a photo taken from above as she's spinning and looking up, and there's a level of just reckless abandon.
It's not reckless abandon.
It's actually incredibly controlled