Democrats questioned the certification of the 2016 election.
Democrats questioned the certification of the 2016 election. All Ted was attempting to do, was to get a few states to audit their election results to confirm accuracy. Unlike Democrats, in 2016, Republicans had a house member make the motion and it was seconded by senator Ted Cruz.
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Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday defended his decision to challenge the Electoral College certification process, pushing back against some of his colleagues who have accused him of inciting Wednesday's deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol by casting doubt on the 2020 election.
"What I was doing is debating on the floor of the Senate election integrity," Cruz said during an interview with KXAS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Fort Worth, Texas. "That has nothing to do with this criminal terrorist assault, which was wrong and needs to be prosecuted. It's exactly the opposite. What I was doing is how you're supposed to resolve issues in this country."
Cruz slammed the violence as a "despicable act of terrorism" and "a shocking assault on our democratic system."
Like other lawmakers, Cruz said he believed Trump's rhetoric had contributed to the siege on the Capitol.
While Cruz did not parrot Trump's unfounded claims about ballot manipulation and fraud, he did emerge as one of the most ardent advocates in the Senate for challenging the certification of Electoral College votes. He led a group of 11 senators demanding a 10-day delay to audit the election results and an emergency investigation, though no evidence of widespread fraud has emerged in the two months since the election.
Cruz eventually withdrew his objections for Georgia, Michigan and Nevada, but co-signed the opposition to Pennsylvania once the Senate reconvened in the wake of the riot.
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