On Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared for an interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation” and had a hard time pushing his talking points about election fraud to justify the January 6 riot.
During the interview, host Margaret Brennan asked about the January 6 insurrection and reports that he had spoken to then-President Donald Trump that day.
“You knew there was no congressional authority to overturn the election,” the CBS host noted. “Don’t indulge the doubters damage our democracy and our standing in the world?”
Cruz ignored part of the question and said that he was unaware of media reports claiming that he had spoken to the then-president on the same day that the U.S. Capitol was attacked.
“I didn’t happen to have any conversations with President Trump on Jan. 6,” Cruz insisted. “I had many conversations with him in the days, weeks and months leading up to Jan. 6. I talk to the president sometimes as often as once a week or once a day.”
Cruz went on to claim that he had a “responsibility” to object to the certification of electoral votes and “to review the claims of voter fraud.”
That’s when Brennan reminded him that there is “no evidence of fraud” that would overturn the 2020 election
“Because we right now have a substantial chunk of our country that has real doubts about the integrity of the election,” Cruz said. “And if we had had a credible electoral commission do an emergency audit, it would have enhanced faith in democracy. But instead, Democrats and a lot of the press decided to just engage in incendiary rhetoric rather than acknowledge voter fraud is real. It is a problem. And the allegations of voter fraud needed to be examined on the merits,” he continued.
“OK, Senator,” Brennan interjected. “There is no evidence of fraud that would really have drawn the outcome of the election into doubt. You know that.”
Cruz attemped to argue that voter fraud is “persistent” but Brennan ignored him and moved on to the next question.
Watch the exchange below.
