'Actually lay out some proof': Ex-GA GOP Lt. Gov. skewers Ted Cruz over baseless election claims
Earlier this month, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, a Republican, announced in an op-ed published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he will vote for President Joe Biden in November over former President Donald Trump.
Asserting that Trump is "a man who has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character," Duncan wrote, "Unlike Trump, I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a criminal defendant without a moral compass."
During a Thursday night conversation with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, Duncan emphasized his frustration with the Republican Party's loyalty to the MAGA hopeful, as well as with many GOP leaders' inability to confirm whether or not they will agree to certify the 2024 election results if Biden wins.
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Collins referenced her Wednesday, May 22 interview with US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), in which the CNN host asked the Texas lawmaker if he would certify the election results this time around — unlike in 2020.
Cruz refused to give a straightforward answer to the question, still claiming that the 2020 election was tainted by voter fraud. It was not.
"As has been made clear, there was no material fraud that would have altered the outcome of the 2020 election," Collins said. Trump's own department of homeland security said that the 2020 vote was one of the most secure in history. Dozens of law lawsuits contesting the election were dismissed and dropped because of a lack of evidence, or a lack of standing by courts across the country."
Collins also noted that Cruz is no stranger to Trump's false claims about losing elections. "In 2016, eight years ago, Trump actually accused Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucuses that he won," the Source with Kaitlan Collins host said.
Back then, Cruz told a reporter, "Donald finds it very hard to lose. Donald Trump guaranteed a victory in Iow, and then he lost. And he doesn't like that. What Donald does when he loses is he blames everybody else. It's never Donald's fault, it's always somebody else's fault."
Collins then spoke with former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan, who was among those pressured by Trump and his allies to change the 2020 results.
"Geoff, what I'm struck by is that it is such a simple and straightforward question that so many Republicans have a difficulty answering these days," the CNN host said.
"I'd flip the script back on Ted Cruz and say, just spend that hot air that you just spent trying to twist around and actually lay out some proof," Duncan said. "I mean, we're almost four years into this, and there's not one ounce or shred of proof that anything happened other than a fair and legal election in Georgia and every are everywhere else in the country. There was never been an election that's been more scrutinized in the Georgia election. And look, this is painful to watch. It takes you back to your high school days where somebody wants to be in the cool kids clubs so bad they will do and say anything, that eventually they look back and say that was a huge mistake. There's not an if, it's when, Republicans will recognize Donald Trump is the biggest stain on our party's history."
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