U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) led a call Saturday (Jan. 2) with 10 other senators for Congress to establish an emergency audit committee on election fraud. Some Democrats have labeled the move “treasonous” and want Cruz arrested. Cruz responded to the Democrats on Sunday: “Calm down”.
Cruz and 11 other senators, in addition to demanding that Congress immediately set up an election committee to investigate the results of the disputed state election, also intend to vote against the results of the electoral vote from the disputed state in a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.
In an interview Sunday with Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox Business’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Cruz spoke about the Democratic attacks on his decision, and the hyperbolic, angry rhetoric he heard.
“Yesterday, when I made the statement with 10 other senators, there were a lot of Democrats urging that I should be arrested and tried for sedition and treason.” Cruz said.
“Look, I think everybody needs to calm down. I think we should tone it down a little bit,” Cruz said, adding, “This has been a volatile situation. It’s like a powder keg that you throw a lit match into.”
He also said he hopes the federal Supreme Court, which twice refused to hear the election fraud case, will agree to hear it. He said the Supreme Court had two opportunities to hear the general election fraud case, a lawsuit in Pennsylvania and a lawsuit in Texas against four swing states. The Supreme Court is a better place to resolve those disputes, but they didn’t take up either case.
Cruz said that while challenging the election results is not the ideal move for Congress, in his opinion it is better than just accepting an election result that has a large number of voters questioning it.
He said ignoring the numerous allegations of election fraud is the real attack on American democracy. “We should have a serious, impartial process and court to consider these claims, to consider them quickly, to consider them expeditiously. We can do that within 10 days before (the president) is inaugurated.”
Cruz referred to a Reuters and IPSOS poll released Nov. 18 showing that 39 percent of Americans believe the election is rigged; by party, 68 percent of Republicans, 16 percent of Democrats and 31 percent of independents believe the election is rigged.
Given this figure, Cruz stressed the importance of rebuilding the American voter’s trust in the democratic process.
“And I believe that should be the goal of both parties. We may be too divided to do that today, but Democrats should be focused on giving Americans confidence in our electoral system, just as Republicans should be doing.”
On Sunday, 10 members of the Senate from both parties said they oppose challenges to the election results by Cruz and others.
UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich tweeted the 11 senators who announced Saturday’s challenge to Biden’s victory as “enemies of democracy,” and tweeted out the list, led by Cruz.
Cruz responded to the list of “enemies” on Twitter with two points of clarification.
(1) Demanding an impartial and credible audit of allegations of serious election fraud is defending the integrity of our democracy, and
(2) Some of us remember when Reich wrote, “Don’t Democrats believe in democracy?”
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