The Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Reuters asked the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the U.S. election if they believed Donald Trump lost the presidency because of election fraud. Most dodged the question.
“That’s a provision that was put in place to say that we’re going to pay our Civil War debts,” he added. “It refers to the Civil War that we had just fought and paying those war debts off.”
Ted Cruz claims the moral highroad every time he has a chance. His father was a Preacher Man who sent his son to law school.Did Raphael Cruz teach his son to always tell the truth, because – GOD IS THE TRUTH? Sure he did. Well, what happened when he was asked if he believes Biden stole the election? I hate Ted Cruz. He’s a Black-eyed Devil and Deceiver. Everytime he gets near a Bible, or my Constitution – I cringe?
I hereby challenge Lyen Ted to a Biblical and Constitutional Debate about the extreme pertinence of the Fourteenth Amendment. He and DeSantis use people they title “sinners” to distract us from the truth the vast majority of Republicans voted to take away the Presidency of Joe Biden. Theyare now trying to take away the monies every President needs Govern our Democracy!
I demand, in the name of the Jubilee Jesus, that all 147 Republican Rebels take the Iron Clad oath, or have their votes rendered USELESS till the next President is sworn in!
John Presco
Follower of The Jubilee Jesus
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/LAWMAKERS/xegpbedzdvq/
In 2016, in a brutal primary, Trump insinuated Cruz’s wife was ugly and linked his father to the assassination of John F Kennedy. He also questioned whether Cruz, born in Canada, was qualified to be US president and coined a lasting nickname, Lyin’ Ted.
Manafort’s description of a Trump apology for such slurs may come as a surprise to both men.
Was the election stolen? Don’t ask these Republicans
Reuters asked the office of every lawmaker who voted against the certification of Electoral College results the same yes-or-no question: Do you believe that Donald Trump lost the election because of voter fraud?
Fully 133 lawmakers of those lawmakers, or 90%, either declined to answer or did not respond to repeated inquiries. They include the two senators who led the coalition of objectors – Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley – as well as Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, one of the most strident backers of Trump’s bid to overturn the election.
Sen. Josh Hawley
Missouri
In a Dec. 30 statement, Hawley said some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election laws, an argument multiple courts had already rejected. “At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections.”
But he later told CNN: “I was very clear from the beginning that I was never attempting to overturn the election.”
Hawley’s office did not respond to repeated inquiries into whether he believed Trump lost because of voter fraud.
Sen. Ted Cruz
Texas
“By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes,” Cruz said in a Jan. 2 joint statement with 10 other senators and senators-elect.
Days later, speaking on the Senate floor the day of the Capitol siege, Cruz said: “Let me be clear. I am not arguing for setting aside the result of this election.”
When asked by Reuters whether Cruz thought Trump lost due to voter fraud, a spokesman declined to answer.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Sunday that President Biden’s suggestion that he could use the 14th Amendment to unilaterally address the debt ceiling is “legally frivolous.”
“I think Biden’s position on the 14th Amendment is legally frivolous,” Cruz said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“That’s a provision that was put in place to say that we’re going to pay our Civil War debts,” he added. “It refers to the Civil War that we had just fought and paying those war debts off.”
Biden said earlier Sunday that he was looking at “whether or not we have the authority” to use the 14th Amendment, after debt ceiling negotiations with Republicans broke down the day before.
The argument for such a unilateral move is based on a phrase in the amendment that the public debt “shall not be questioned.”
“I think we have the authority,” Biden told reporters at a press conference in Hiroshima, Japan. “The question is, could it be done and invoked in time that it would not be appealed, and as a consequence past the date in question and still default on the debt. That is a question that I think is unresolved.”
However, Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen has previously warned that invoking the 14th Amendment would cause a “constitutional crisis.”
Cruz noted Sunday that former President Obama also rejected the use of the 14th Amendment when he encountered similar roadblocks to raising the debt ceiling.
“By the way, someone else who agreed with that was Barack Obama,” he said. “The left tried to convince Obama to do this, and Obama said, ‘No, you can’t do this under the Constitution, under the terms of the Constitution.’”DeSantis changes Twitter handle ahead of rumored 2024 announcementTrump attacks Fox’s Laura Ingraham over ‘hit piece’ on his poll numbers
The Texas senator suggested that Biden should instead vow to pay the interest on U.S. debt as a means of preventing default.
“As I said, Joe Biden can ensure that we don’t default on the debt. He has ample authority to do that and to do that right now by saying we’re going to pay the interest on the debt,” Cruz said.
“What they want is not to pay the interest on the debt, what they want to do is they want to pay the $6 trillion in other government spending, and there’s nothing in the 14th Amendment that gives them the power to do that,” he added.
Religious and political beliefs[edit]
Cruz speaking at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City – 2015
Cruz left the Catholic Church in 1975 and became an Evangelical Protestant after attending a Bible study with a colleague and having a born again experience. Explaining his leaving the Catholic church, Cruz stated in an interview with National Review, “The people at the Bible study had a peace that I could not understand, this peace in the midst of trouble. I knew I needed to find that peace by finding Jesus Christ.” Following his conversion, his son and wife also became born-again Protestants. In the Cruz home, talk at dinner time was frequently about the Bible.[5] He was ordained as a pastor in 2004.[24]
Cruz works from his home in Carrollton, a suburb of Dallas, as a traveling preacher[25][26] and public speaker, campaigning as a surrogate for his son during the 2016 Presidential campaign season.[14][27] In a 2014 Associated Press story, Cruz was quoted as saying, “I have a burden for this country and I feel that we cannot sit silent.” He went on to say that he feels “It’s time we stop being politically correct and start being biblically correct.”[27][28][29]
About his political involvements in the 1980s, Cruz reflected, “I was on the state board of the Religious Roundtable, a Christian and Jewish religious organization that worked to elect Ronald Reagan.” At the time, he told his son, “God has destined you for greatness.”[14][30]
At the New Beginnings Church in Irving, Texas, in August 2012, Cruz delivered a sermon where he described his son’s senatorial campaign as taking place within a context where Christian “kings” were anointed to preside over an “end-time transfer of wealth” from wicked people to the righteous. Cruz urged the congregation to “tithe mightily” to achieve that result.[31] During an interview conducted by The Christian Post in 2014, Cruz stated, “I think we cannot separate politics and religion; they are interrelated. They’ve always been interrelated.”[32] Salon described Cruz as a “Dominionist, devoted to a movement that finds in Genesis a mandate that ‘men of faith’ seize control of public institutions and govern by biblical principle.”[33]
Cruz was involved with his son’s 2016 presidential campaign, playing what The Boston Globe described as “a crucial—if sometimes divisive—element of the Texas senator’s campaign to win over conservative Christian voters.”[34] Also his son’s presidential primary opponent, Donald Trump accused Cruz’s father of involvement with John F. Kennedy’s assassination.[35][36] During the campaign, Cruz underwent emergency eye surgery, but returned to campaigning after several weeks’ recovery.[34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Cruz
In 2016, in a brutal primary, Trump insinuated Cruz’s wife was ugly and linked his father to the assassination of John F Kennedy. He also questioned whether Cruz, born in Canada, was qualified to be US president and coined a lasting nickname, Lyin’ Ted.
Manafort’s description of a Trump apology for such slurs may come as a surprise to both men.
Trump is famous for never apologising, whether in his business career or in his seven-year careen across the US political scene.
And when Cruz eventually came onside with Trump, in September 2016, he said: “Neither he nor his campaign has ever taken back a word they said about my wife and my family.”
Now Manafort says Trump did apologise – and to Cruz’s face at that.
Describing a meeting meant to get Cruz’s support before the convention in Cleveland in July, Manafort writes that the senator said he would work with the man who beat him into second in the primary but would not formally endorse him, “because his supporters didn’t want him to”.
Manafort writes: “It was a forced justification for someone who is normally very logical. Trump didn’t buy it.”
Trump nonetheless apologised, Manafort writes, then “told Cruz he considered him an ally, not an enemy, and that he believed they could work together when Trump was president.”
At least initially, Trump’s effort was in vain. In his speech at the convention, Cruz did not endorse Trump and was booed by the crowd. The senator’s wife, Heidi Cruz, was escorted out of the arena, out of concern for her safety.
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The Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Reuters asked the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the U.S. election if they believed Donald Trump lost the presidency because of election fraud. Most dodged the question.
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