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Sen. Ted Cruz (D.-Texas) said in El Paso on Wednesday night that the shooter who killed 22 people and injured 24 others at a Walmart in that city on Saturday “was a bigoted, hateful, white supremacist terrorist” and that Cruz was “glad the Department of Justice has announced they are going to prosecute him as a terrorist.”

The Associated Press posted on YouTube a video of some of Cruz's remarks.

The senator said that he was inspired by the strength and love he saw in the community of El Paso in the wake of the mass shooting.

“I’ll tell you, the community of El Paso is strong,” Cruz said. “And I got to say, I just finished visiting with a number of people who were shot on Saturday, and it is inspiring to see the strength, to see the love, to see the community coming together.”

“Saturday morning, El Paso and all of Texas and all of the country saw the face of evil,” Cruz said. “We saw a bigoted, hateful lunatic strike right at the heart of Texas.”

“I have read this so-called manifesto, and it is hateful, it is horrific,” Cruz said. “And this murderer was a bigoted, hateful, white supremacist terrorist.”

“I am glad the Department of Justice has announced they are going to prosecute him as a terrorist,” he said.

Here is a transcript of Cruz’s remarks in the video posted by the Associated Press: