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He’s known as the Republican field’s great debater, but Senator Ted Cruz — a former Princeton debate champion — is not entirely undefeated.
As a Harvard Law student in 1995, Mr. Cruz and his debate partner, David Panton, were ousted in the semifinals of the World Debate Championships by two students from University of New South Wales.
First Draft caught up one of the competitors at the event who said Mr. Cruz’s debate downfall came when he was unable to successfully argue that the United Nations should not be able to intervene during genocide.
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