The Daily Populous Monday November 22nd, 2021 day edition
Authored by huffpost.com and submitted by UWCG

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was confronted by CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday over his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results and for continuing to spin lies about the integrity of the vote.

According to “Peril,” a new book featuring exclusive reporting from Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Cruz had detailed conversations with former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6 in which Cruz admitted Congress had no authority to overturn the election.

“Didn’t indulging the doubters damage our democracy and our standing in the world?” Brennan asked.

Cruz, who along with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) led the charge to flip the results ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — and still voted to overturn them in Trump’s favor following the violence — said, “I haven’t read that particular book and I didn’t happen to have any conversations with President Trump on Jan. 6.”

However, he said he had spoken to Trump many times in the days, weeks and months leading up to Jan. 6.

WATCH: @margbrennan presses @SenTedCruz on his repeated and debunked claims of voter fraud in the US:

BRENNAN: "Senator there is no evidence of fraud that would have drawn the outcome of the election into doubt." pic.twitter.com/xfXP5HQLsa — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) November 21, 2021

“I absolutely condemned acts of violence,” he said of the insurrection. But he went on to say that if his coalition of 11 Senate Republicans who voted against certifying the results had been successful in launching a vote audit, it “would have 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,” he said, attacking Democrats and the media for refusing to acknowledge those doubts — which largely only exist because he and other Republicans have stoked them.

“OK, senator. There is no evidence of fraud that would have really drawn the outcome of the election into doubt. You know that,” Brennan noted.

jayphat99 on November 22nd, 2021 at 01:14 UTC »

“Because we right now have a substantial chunk of our country that has real doubts about the integrity of the election,”

No fucking shit we do, BECAUSE YOU KEEP TELLING THEM THERE WAS FRAUD! Over and over and over and over again on any right leaning media you repeat the lies that there were cases of voter fraud, which makes people think there was voter fraud, leading them to yell at an elected official they see "what are you doing about all this voter fraud?"

likebudda on November 22nd, 2021 at 01:10 UTC »

> “Because we right now have a substantial chunk of our country that has real doubts about the integrity of the election,” he said

They're not real doubts, they're fake doubts caused by wholly unsupported lies.

Liesthroughisteeth on November 22nd, 2021 at 00:17 UTC »

They need to start cutting these fools off. There's no place for outright lies, disinformation and the manipulation of gullible people.