Ari Melber on Cruz recording: “Basically...they would hijack the certification [of the 2020 election] and use their own made-up, fake commission to declare that the Biden win was fraudulent.” (via MaddowBlog)
More than two years removed from the insurrectionist violence, it’s tempting to think that the GOP senator has left the 2020 race behind. In fact, NBC News recently
that Cruz is even trying to “show some bipartisan credentials” as he prepares for his re-election campaign in Texas next year.Last week, MSNBC’s Ari Melber, host of “The Beat,”of a Cruz phone call with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo from Nov. 7, 2020, in which the Republican lawmaker stressed that Donald Trump and his team would need to come up with some “actual evidence” to support their election conspiracy theories.
No such evidence emerged, though Cruz nevertheless helped lead the effort to reject certification of the election results.Sen. Ted Cruz advocated the creation of a congressionally appointed electoral commission ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to make a credible assessment of unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, according to a recording made by Abby Grossberg, a former producer at Fox News.
The senator’s plan, evidently, was to push for some kind of “commission” that would slow down the certification process and pursue baseless conspiracy theories, all as part of a broader scheme to keep the losing candidate in the White House.“Basically,” Melber explained to viewers, “they would hijack the certification and use their own made-up, fake commission to declare that the Biden win was fraudulent and then that would decide who was inaugurated.
If the senator thinks that’s a compelling defense for trying to overturn a free and fair American presidential election, he’s mistaken.
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