On Thursday, Jan. 7, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a far-left representative from New York, used the turmoil in Congress as an pretext to call for the resignation of Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Missouri), both of whom are challenging the Electoral College. Mr. Cruz responded that the riots had nothing to do with members of Congress doing their jobs.
On Wednesday, Cruz’s debate before a joint session of Congress over his opposition to Arizona’s Electoral College certifying Biden’s victory was interrupted when a group of “Trump supporters” ran into the Capitol building. The uproar forced lawmakers to go into hiding, and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made a hasty exit through an underpass, escorted by security personnel, putting the entire certification process on hold.
Cruz strongly condemned the violence on Capitol Hill, calling it a “despicable act of terrorism.” But because Mr. Cruz and Ms. Hawley were the lawmakers who led the Electoral College challenge against some swing states to certify Mr. Biden, the AOC and others have blamed them for the unrest.
“It is our job to debate the integrity of elections in the Senate, and we will not be held responsible for the despicable terrorists who attacked the Capitol yesterday,” Cruz shot back on Twitter. “I’m sorry, I’m not going anywhere when you [the AOC] and your fellow socialists are trying to destroy millions of jobs with a Green New Deal, when you’re pushing for amnesty, when you’re trying to stuff Supreme Court disease with radicals destroying our constitutional rights.”
Trump and his Allies on Capitol Hill are convinced that widespread voter fraud contributed to November’s unfair election results. The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits challenging the election results in several key swing states, but those cases have been dismissed by multiple courts.
As for the Jan. 6 riots, it has been confirmed by multiple sources that Antifa was the mastermind behind the riots in Parliament. Mo Brooks, a Republican Congressman, said Jan. 7 that ‘multiple pieces of evidence suggest that the riot that broke into the Capitol was a well-planned attack by Antifa,’ and offered multiple pieces of evidence. The top U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia said Capitol police allegedly opened barricades for protesters to enter the Capitol building before the riot broke out.
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