Ted Cruz says he’d object to Biden electors even knowing about riot, blasts Trump for ‘reckless’ rhetoric
Fallout from Capitol rampage could hamper his 2024 prospects, as Texan endures barrage for stoking doubts about Trump’s defeat.
Sen. Ted Cruz sits in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol and disrupted a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump.(Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Asked if he would take the same actions even in hindsight, the Texas Republican dug in.
“Yes. Absolutely,” he told KXAS-TV (Ch. 5). “I would object and urge that we should follow the law and follow the Constitution.”
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Early in her bid for a North Texas congressional seat, Beth Van Duyne went on “Fox & Friends” with three other Republican women to take aim at the brand of liberalism they planned to fight in Washington, D.C.
Informally named a “conservative squad” – the GOP’s antidote to a quartet of progressive women in the U.S. House known as “the squad” – Van Duyne said that, if elected, the GOP group’s goal was to influence a Congress “run by extremists.”
“We’ve seen nothing that is solving the problems at the border, where you’ve got loopholes that enable human traffickers and drug cartels to come in,” Van Duyne said in the December 2019 interview.
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Anderson is the younger sibling of former Oklahoma running back Rodney Anderson and current Ole Miss defensive end Ryder Anderson.
Anderson already has more than ten offers on his resume to date, including Arizona State, Miami, Notre Dame, TCU, and Wisconsin.
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| Early in her bid for a North Texas congressional seat, Beth Van Duyne went on “Fox & Friends” with three other Republican women to take aim at the brand of liberalism they planned to fight in Washington, D.C. Informally named a “conservative squad” the GOP’s antidote to a quartet of progressive women in the U.S. House known as “the squad” Van Duyne said that, if elected, the GOP group’s goal was to influence a Congress “run by extremists.” “We’ve seen nothing that is solving the problems at the border, where you’ve got loopholes that enable human traffickers and drug cartels to come in,” Van Duyne said in the December 2019 interview.
Beth Van Duyne could be the GOP’s antidote to high-profile progressives when she joins Congress
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Early in her bid for a North Texas congressional seat, Beth Van Duyne went on “Fox & Friends” with three other Republican women to take aim at the brand of liberalism they planned to fight in Washington, D.C.
Informally named a “conservative squad” the GOP’s antidote to a quartet of progressive women in the U.S. House known as “the squad” Van Duyne said that, if elected, the GOP group’s goal was to influence a Congress “run by extremists.”