U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared to troll comedian Bill Maher on Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time,” turning the election accuser into an election denier with some irrefutable facts.
“You are one of the 11 senators who voted not to certify in the last election,” Maher told Cruz. “You think Biden didn’t win?”
“Look, Biden is clearly the president,” Cruz responded.
“Well, that’s not the question or the answer,” Maher replied as the audience laughed. “Do you think he won? Was it a fair election?”
“No, those are very different questions,” Cruz said. “He won and is the president? Yes. Was it fair?”
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Cruz argued that there were “a lot of things” that were unfair about the 2020 election.
Cruz appeared on Maher’s show, at least in part, to promote his newly launched book“Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.”
Arguing that the 2020 election has been “combed more than any election ever, even by people on your side,” Maher threw a quote from Cruz’s book at the lawmaker: “Democrats’ capacity for shamelessness keeps surprise me, they weren’t more willing to play by the rules of democracy.”
“Now, I know you’re funny now, but is this a joke?” Maher asked, adding that he believed it was Republicans “who are no longer willing to play by the rules of democracy.”
“It seems like your idea has gone over in the Republican Party to ‘elections only count if we win, and then we’ll litigate them endlessly,’ even though yours was laughed at by, like, 60 different courts,” he said Maher. .
“Why don’t you let it go?” he asked Cruz.
Cruz accused Maher of being the one who won’t let it go, saying, “I believe passionately in democracy and I also believe that voter fraud is a real and persistent problem.”
“I have never seen you or any other host ask Hillary Clinton why she said in 2016 that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president,” Cruz noted. “I’ve never seen you ask Democrats why they opposed presidential certification in 2001 — that was George W. Bush — in 2005 — that was George W. Bush — and in 2016 — that was Donald Trump, and I do not. I think we should have a double standard here.”
Maher was so focused on the Republicans’ claims about the 2020 election that he proved Cruz’s point for him.
“Well, there’s a double standard because there’s two different things,” Maher argued seriously. “One is a protest, a gentle protest.”
Leaning forward in his seat, Maher said, “Al Gore was the head of the Senate at the time. He had to step down in an election he knew he won.”
“Did he know he won? Wait, are you an election denier?” Cruz intervened. “You just said Al Gore won this election.”
Excited, the snarky host immediately backed off.
“Well, he… okay, he didn’t win,” Maher corrected himself. “Sorry. You’re right. You’re right. I meant he won the popular vote.”
Trying to save his point, the host claimed that Bush’s brother, then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush, “stopped the count.”
Cruz hit him back with the facts, claiming the Supreme Court stopped the count.
“I mean, facts matter,” Cruz said. “They counted the votes four times in Florida. George W. Bush won all four times.”
“I was part of the legal team that litigated that case, so I was intimately involved in Bush v. Gore,” he continued. “Every time the votes were counted, Bush won.”
“The bigger point is that Al Gore took one for the team,” Maher insisted. “He came out and said, ‘OK, you know, it was a really fucked-up election, but this is America.’ The jewel in our crown is that we pass power peacefully, and I won’t be the first not to do that.”
“Nixon let it go in 1960,” he said. “It could have been a shitty election. And Hillary came out in her damn purple dress. She did it before the sun came up. She did it before the rooster crowed three times. She came out and said, ‘Trump is the president”.
“That’s what you’re not going to do,” Maher told Cruz.
“Joe Biden is the president,” Cruz said. “What do you mean we won’t? I’m fighting him every day, and he’s screwing up the country and the world, so I’m very aware that Joe Biden is the president.”
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