Cruz was one of the Republican members of Congress who objected to certifying Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021.
"As we evacuated the floor, Mitt Romney turned to me and the other objectorsNewsweekwho supported objections to the Electoral College vote"argued that in the face of the riot, we should suspend our objections and vote to certify the election."
"I understood the sentiment. But I vehemently disagreed with it. I urged my colleagues that the course of action we were advocating was the right and principled one," he wrote.handful of violent rioters to change our willingness to fulfill our constitutional responsibility." "When they stormed the Capitol that day and assaulted police officers, these rioters wanted to stop the government from working; I wasn't going to let them," the senator said in his book.
Cruz ultimately voted to object to the certification of Arizona and Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes. The election results were ultimately certified by both chambers ofwhen they reconvened following the breach at the Capitol. Romney did not vote to object to either state's votes. In this composite image, Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during the America First Agenda Summit, at the Marriott Marquis hotel July 26, 2022 in Washington, DC and U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chambers of the Capitol during a vote on December 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. In his new book, Cruz said Romney snarled at him and appeared to blame him for the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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