You have the courts having passed up any potential challenge. 'You heard the question - who decides who gets inaugurated that's what this is all about. 'He admits it,' Melber continued after playing the audio. Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course.ĭuring his segment on Tuesday, Melber claimed that the senator's calls for a reassessment of the election results 'was for Cruz one step in a larger coup plot.' The agreement allowed Republican candidate Hayes to become president and prevented another civil war but required Republicans to pull federal troops from the South, bringing an end to the Reconstruction Era and subjecting Black Americans to the deluge of white supremacist violence that followed. 6, both times neglecting to mention the Compromise of 1877. 'You need an adjudicatory body with fact-finding and investigative authority to consider the facts to examine the record and to make determinations - that's how they did it in 1877,' Cruz told Grossberg and Bartiromo.Ĭruz repeated these sentiments on the Senate floor shortly before the mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. To support his plan, Cruz also cited the electoral commission created in 1876 to investigate potential voter fraud in the Hayes-Tilden election. Cruz said that if the commission 'found credible evidence of fraud that undermines confidence in the electoral results in any given state they would report on that.' 6 objectionsīartiromo also asked Cruz who would decide which candidate would be inaugurated. Ted Cruz reveals he hid in a 'closet' during Capitol riot after leading Jan. 'I think that the country deserves to have a credible assessment of these claims and what the evidence shows and the mechanism to try to force that is denying certification on the sixth,' Cruz said in the tape, first aired by MSNBC's Ari Melber. In the audio, Cruz, who was also the first senator to object to the Electoral College results, details his scheme to establish the commission, explaining that he gathered 11 senators to object to the electoral certification, which would prompt a 10-day audit. Though the tape, recorded just four days before the insurrection at the Capitol, echoes the Texas senator's public statements related to the plot to block the certification of President Joe Biden's win, it reveals the depth of his plot to support former President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reports.

2, 2021 recording of a conversation between him, former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, privately described a plot to create an electoral commission to assess the false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election in a newly released Jan.

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