“I absolutely condemn acts of violence,” Senator Rafael Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) begins, “BUT, but, but what I, what I did was lead a group of Senators–”
“And the inspiration for that?” Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan asks.
“–in a Constitution, in a Constitutional option which I think would’ve been much better for our democracy because we right now have a substantial chunk of our country that has real doubts about the integrity of the election and if we 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 that voter fraud is real. It is a problem, –”
“Do you want– ? Do you have–? I want to ask–” Brennan attempts to ask.
“…and, and, and, the allegations of voter fraud needed to be examined on the merits,” Cruz continues.
“Okay. Senator,” Brennan says. “There is no evidence of fraud that would have drawn out the results of the election into doubt. You know that.”