'Ridiculous question': Ted Cruz gets testy when asked if he'll accept 2024 election results

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: UK Independent

46 minutes ago


Ted Cruz got into a tense exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after the host asked him point blank whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election.

“In 2024 will you certify the election results? Do you plan to object or will you accept the results regardless of who wins the election?” Ms Collins asked.

The Republican senator insisted it was “actually a ridiculous question,” then went on to argue that there was voter fraud in 2020, even if it wasn’t enough to change the outcome of the election. The senator also suggested that there was a peaceful transfer of power in 2021, seemingly disregarding the January 6 Capitol riot and the multiple attempts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election results.

“If the Democrats win, I will accept the result but I'm not going to ignore fraud regardless of what happens,” he said in the interview with Ms Collins, who asked if there was fraud in 2020.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-election-results-donald-trump-b2550246.html

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He was the architect of one of the overthrow schemes and active participant in the insurrection.

[Attilatheblond]

1. Translation: 'I am not actually answering that question because I'm a coward & to do so would alienate somebody

and I can't afford to piss any voter off, so I must only reply in poli-doublespeak'

[FakeNoose]

2. Here's what's ridiculous: Every Repuke needs to be asked the same question

Why is that?

Good for the reporter at the UK Independent, and every other journalist who insists on getting an answer. These Repukes are all weasels and I include Ted Cruz in that number.

Only Liz Cheney and a few others have any integrity left.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

10. And we all saw what happened to Liz Chaney.

She was primaried and voted out of office. The Republican Party is effective dead and Trump has it in his grip.

You are correct in your assessment of Cruz’s response; anyone who does not toe the line and show 100% fealty to Trump will suffer the same fate as Chaney or maybe worse if Trump ends up back in the WH.

Bootlicking comes naturally to Cruz as he is by nature an obsequious, slimy worm.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Kaitlan Collins has surprised me

From clips I've seen she pursues truth and asks difficult and followup questions.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. Me too!

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Like going to a turkey farm and asking the farmer.....

...if he's going to kill the birds in November.
The farmer demurs, saying that's a stupid question, as he grinds a sharp edge on his axe.

[NanaCat]

7. Maybe you need to do a bit of research

Rather than implying that the DOJ and Democrats in general aren't doing anything to insure a free and fair election.

Garland announced LONG AGO (2021!) that he had established an Election Threats Task Force. Here are some of the DOJ's ongoing ACTUAL CASES they are pursuing to protect elections and election workers:

*United States v. Solomon Pena et al. (District of New Mexico): Charged with conspiracy, interference with federally protected activities through violence, and firearms offenses for an alleged shooting spree targeting the homes of elected officials and a candidate for office. Jose Louise Trujillo is scheduled for sentencing on July 24, 2024. Demetrio Trujillo is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 6, 2024.
*United States v. Katelyn Jones (Eastern District of Michigan): Sentenced to 30 days in prison on Jan. 16, 2024 for sending multiple threatening communications to a Michigan election official in the wake of the 2020 election.
*United States v. Chad Stark (Northern District of Georgia): Sentenced to 2 years in prison on Nov. 29, 2023 after pleading guilty to posting a message online threatening several Georgia public officials following the 2020 election.
*United States v. Travis Ford (District of Nebraska): Sentenced to 18 months in prison on Oct. 6, 2022 for making multiple threatening posts on an Instagram page associated with a Colorado election official.
*United States v. James Clark (District of Arizona): Sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on March 12, 2024 for sending a communication containing a bomb threat to an election official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.
*United States v. Walter Lee Hoornstra (Western District of Missouri): Charged with allegedly leaving a voicemail containing a threat on the personal cell phone of an election official in the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in Maricopa County, Arizona.
*United States v. Mark Rissi (District of Arizona): Sentenced to 2.5 years in prison on Aug. 28, 2023 for sending threatening communications to an election official on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and to an official with the Office of the Arizona Attorney General.
*United States v. Joshua Lubitz (Southern District of Florida): Sentenced to 18 months of home detention on July 24, 2023 for threatening poll workers for aiding voters.
*United States v. Frederick Goltz (Northern District of Texas): Sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on Aug. 2, 2023 for suggesting a “mass shooting of poll workers” and threatening two Maricopa County officials and their children.
*United States v. Gary Koch (Western District of Kentucky): Sentenced to 2 years' probation on Sept. 19, 2023 for mailing a threat to a political candidate.
*United States v. Jessica Higginbotham (Middle District of Georgia): Sentenced to 18 months in prison on July 31, 2023 for sending a threatening message to bomb the local headquarters of a political party the day before U.S. Senators from Georgia were in town for campaign events.
*United States v. Joshua Russell (District of Arizona): Sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on March 25, 2024 for sending threatening communications to an election official with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
*United States v. Andrew Nickels (Eastern District of Michigan): Pleaded guilty to sending a communication that included a threat of violence to an election worker in Michigan. Sentencing is scheduled for July 9, 2024.
*United States v. Quintez Brown (Western District of Kentucky): Charged with one count of interference with federally protected activities through violence and one count of discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
*United States v. William Hyde (Southern District of California): Charged with one count of communicating an interstate threat for allegedly leaving a voicemail containing a violent threat on the personal cell phone of an election official with the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in Phoenix, Arizona.
*United States vs. Brian Ogstad (District of Arizona): Charged with allegedly sending threatening messages to election workers with Maricopa County Elections in Phoenix, Arizona.

https://www.justice.gov/voting/election-threats

So much for the nonsense claim that Garland and the DOJ are doing nothing.

Try doing some very basic research before making claims that just aren't so.

[JT45242]

16. Thanks for the list -- I missed the names of any congress critter, wife of a SCOTUS justice, SCOTUS justice, or state AG

Clearly that was an oversight on your part and not a lack of accountability for people with real power.

Oh yeah, I missed Koch, Thiel, the Federalist Society, et al on the list too.

Clearly, you got tired from cutting and pasting and not the the DOJ and Garland are selectively prosecuting pissants and peons and letting the big fish walk free.

[Comfortably_Numb]

6. He will log in from Cancun to check the results. I hate Raphael Cruz and I'm sick that he's my damn senator.

[NanaCat]

8. His office hangs up on my Mum when she calls

I guess they're tired of her making him look like the traitorous fool that he is.

[Comfortably_Numb]

18. He is an apex POS. It's hard to imagine anyone worse, because he is so despicable.

He is a treasonous buffoon and a hate monger. And his beard looks like he belongs on “to catch a predator.”

[JoseBalow]

19. "Take another shot of courage"

[Comfortably_Numb]

22. Eye beach!!!! Please, for the love of Odin... I can never unsee that. The whole concept is nauseating.

Well done!!!

[JoseBalow]

23. Thank you!

[CTyankee]

24. OH NO....

[oasis]

25. Heidi's prize stallion.

[SarahD]

12. Just lie, Ted.

Say yes and break your promise if you feel like it. None of your supporters will care.

[ScratchCat]

13. And here goes the media again

Simply asking this question legitimizes the notion that one can accept or not accept election results. The media started this with Trump, totally legitimizing the notion that he didn't have to accept the results. You don't ask a question unless there are two legitimate options for an answer. You don't ask "Is molesting children wrong?" because that implies there are two equal options for a reply when there obviously isn't. Same here. Nobody has the option of accepting or not accepting the results of the election. Or that was, there wasn't until the media started this nonsense in 2020. Unreal.

[ECL213]

15. Of course he's not going to ignore fraud...

he has to look at it in the mirror every day.

[thesquanderer]

17. re: "there was voter fraud in 2020, even if it wasn't enough to change the outcome of the election"

News flash: that's true in EVERY election.

[RainCaster]

20. ...and the majority of that fraud was Republican

Let's leave the blame where it belongs- with those who are trying to spread the blame.

[republianmushroom]

21. 'Ridiculous question', He is a republican of course he won't.

[Bristlecone]

26. The king of the straw man argument

They all are. They must reach a class in their chamber.