More pile-on against @TedCruz and the #TrumpEleven:
Hawaii Sen. @brianschatz: "Some of the same people who voted no on #impeachment, saying that the remedy for malfeasance is an election, are now saying the remedy for the election is malfeasance." 1/x
.@WillHurd, on last full day in Congress, says @TedCruz and others who'll object to @JoeBiden's win are "playing into our enemies hands....When I was undercover at the CIA, I saw firsthand how our enemies steal elections and try to interfere in ours." 2/x
Intel vice-chair @MarkWarner accuses @TedCruz et al of abetting "undemocratic temper tantrum of a decisively defeated president....I fear they will do damage to our democracy & our global credibility that cannot be easily repaired.” 3/x
.@MittRomney on @TedCruz: "Has ambition so eclipsed principle?
The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme &unusual circumstances...Trump's lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed. 4/x dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
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Most GOP Texans in Congress -- whose oath, recall, is to uphold the Constitution, which says that presidents are elected via the Electoral College -- still refuse to say if they think @JoeBiden won. 1/x
“I am not going to respond to the media game of asking only qs its members care about asking after watching them literally refuse to ask @wendydavis a single important question...thruout a hard-fought campaign.”