Audio recordings have leaked of Republican Senator Ted Cruz and a Fox News host discussing his plans to challenge 2020 election results.
The tapes aired on MSNBC Tuesday night and were released by Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer-turned-whistleblower who has lawsuits filed against the network and former anchor Tucker Carlson. Grossberg has close to 100 audio recordings from her time at Fox News.
In one of the tapes released by Grossberg’s attorney, Cruz can be heard outlining plans to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo to block President Biden’s victory.
"I think that the country deserves to have a credible assessment of these claims and what the evidence shows, and the mechanism to try to force that is denying certification on the 6th," Cruz said on tape.
On Grossberg’s secret recording, Cruz can be heard telling Bartiromo if Congress could deny certification of the electoral votes, then a commission would be appointed to investigate claims of voter fraud that the courts had already shot down. Cruz was one of 11 senators who objected to the certification of President Biden's victory on Jan. 6, 2021.
The group of eleven senators said they "intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states."
After the release of that audio, Cruz defended himself on Twitter, writing he made the exact same comments to Bartiromo on national television the next morning, and on the House floor...
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