Watch Ted Cruz Repeatedly Say He Wants To Repeal Something That's Not A Federal Law (vid)

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When Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz became the first politician to officially announce his presidential campaign last week, he repeated a familiar mantra to his audience at Virginia's Liberty University.

"Instead of a federal government that seeks to dictate school curriculum through Common Core, imagine repealing every word of Common Core," the Texas politician said to roaring applause.

The only problem? The Common Core State Standards are not enshrined in any federal law, and therefore cannot be repealed.

Over the course of the past few months, Cruz has said over and over again that he wants to take Common Core off the books -- as shown in the video above. However, if Cruz were elected president, he would have no power to do so. The Common Core State Standards are a set of education benchmarks that have been adopted by state leaders in a majority of states around the country. Only states have the power to drop Common Core -- and in fact, some states have.