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Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz took many by surprise recently when he went after former President Donald Trump.
During a segment on “VERDICT with Ted Cruz,” the Republican Senator did a total 180 and completely unleashed on Trump for his “overheated rhetoric” about the 2020 election and alleged voter fraud.
Ironically, Cruz was one of the few Senators to challenge the electoral college vote.
“President Trump’s rhetoric, I think, went way too far over the line,” Cruz said on the show.
“I think it was both reckless and irresponsible because he said repeatedly—and he said over and over again—he won by a landslide; there was massive fraud; it was all stolen everywhere,” Cruz said.
“That evidence, the campaign did not prove that in any court, and to make a determination about an election it has to be based on the evidence, and so simply saying the result you want, that’s not responsible and you’ve never heard me use language like that,” he added.
Cruz said: “What I’ve said is voter fraud is real, and we need to examine the evidence and look at the actual facts; and in particular, what is the evidence of how much voter fraud occurred, and did it occur in sufficient quantities and insufficient states to alter the outcome of the election. That would have been the mandate of the election commission; to assess.”
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This comes as establishment Republicans are urging Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to quietly greenlight Trump’s conviction in the Senate.
Reports are emerging that McConnell, is being privately urged to support a conviction vote in the Senate’s Republican caucus by prominent Republicans and former White House officials.
In talking to reporters off the record, one Republican member of Congress made clear that the goal to forbid former President Donald Trump from ever holding elected office again is a commonly held goal not among Democrats and Progressives.
“Mitch said to me he wants Trump gone,” one Republican member of Congress told reporters in confidence.
“It is in his political interest to have him gone. It is in the GOP interest to have him gone. The question is, do we get there?”
Last week, in a shocking floor speech, McConnell said Trump and his allies were the catalysts for “storming” of the Capitol Building on January 6th.
Several videos contradict the use of the word “storming,” showing people casually walking into the Capitol Building through open doors stationed with Capitol Hill police officers who stood by without taking action.
McConnell, who himself has not ruled out voting to convict the former President, said Trump was directly responsible for provoking the actions on January 6th.
Meanwhile, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul successfully convinced all but five Senate Republicans to vote with him in a declaration that the attempt to impeach a president who is no longer sitting, with the excuse that he incited, a riot is completely unconstitutional.
If the 45 Senate Republicans who voted to end the impeachment trial before it began to intend to vote the same way during the Senate trial, then Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will not be able to round up the two-thirds majority required to convict President Trump.