Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got into a back-and-forth with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins while discussing whether or not he would object to the results of the 2024 presidential election.
Cruz, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, is one of several Republican lawmakers to speak out against the results of the 2020 presidential election, and was asked if he plans to do the same again after this November’s election. The Texas senator criticized the question as “ridiculous,” pitting him and Collins in an intense disagreement.
Collins responded to Cruz’s knock on her question by saying that it was “a yes or no question,” prompting the senator to argue that it was not. He then asked if she had asked any Democratic lawmakers if they would object to the 2024 election results, to which Collins replied that “you cannot compare the two situations.”
“So A, we did have a peaceful transfer of power. I was there on Jan. 20. I was there on the swearing-in,” Cruz said. “B, if you look at in 2001, Democrats went to the Senate floor and objected to George W. Bush. In 2004, they went and objected. In 2016, Democrats went and objected to Donald Trump.”
The Texas senator added that Collins was asking if he would promise to agree that this November’s election was legitimate “regardless of what happens.” Cruz argued that this would be an absurd thing to do, pointing to how the United States has an election law system to challenge any voter fraud that could arise in elections.
Toward the end of the interview, Cruz argued that Collins had never asked former Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton or Al Gore questions about election integrity, nor had she asked these questions to former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Collins then claimed that she had not had any of them on her show and that “we’ll talk to them.”
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The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee announced last month that it plans to launch an “election integrity” program this year, which involves getting 100,000 volunteers and attorneys to preserve “the sanctity” of the upcoming election.
In December 2020, Cruz stated at a Georgia rally that anyone involved in voter fraud ought to be prosecuted and jailed.