Fox News’s Chris Wallace compared Sen. Ted Cruz to a Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II after it ended because the Texas Republican is questioning the votes from last Tuesday’s election.
“It would seem to me that Republicans on Capitol Hill have a role to play in this. A very few of them have said, look, you pursue your legal options, but, you know, damp down the rhetoric, like Mitt Romney, like Pat Toomey,” Wallace said on Sunday.
“There are a lot who are just silent. And then there are some, I mentioned Ted Cruz, you know who are like the Japanese soldiers who come out 30 years after the war, out of the jungle, and say, ‘Is the fight still going on?’”
Cruz joined Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday and said that Trump could still win the 2020 election.
“Historically, mail-in votes are much more likely to be disqualified in a recount than in-person votes. Generally, in-person votes — they’re conducted at the polling place, and they usually stand. That means what we’re likely to see in the next few weeks as the recounts go forward is that Joe Biden’s very, very narrow majorities in some of these states, those totals are likely to drop if we see mail-in votes when they’re examined being invalidated as contrary to the law,” Cruz said.
He added he believes Trump “still has a path to victory and that path is to count every single legal vote that was cast, but also not to cast any votes that were fraudulently cast or illegally cast.”
Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden declared victory on Saturday, which the president pushed back on as Biden “has not been certified as the winner of any states.”
“Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor,” Trump said in a written statement Saturday after the calls that Biden won. “In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.”
Conservative radio show Mark Levin host slammed Wallace for the comment on Sunday, telling him to “keep your politics to yourself.”
“This is way out of line. Keep your politics to yourself, Mr. Journalist. You’re not just showing ankle, you’ve undressed yourself,” Levin said, which also elicited a response from Cruz.
Chris Wallace, who beclowned himself with a shamefully biased debate performance—universally panned—continues to demonstrate his rank partisanship.
Urging that we follow the law & that election recounts be actually completed is not somehow undermining democracy. https://t.co/vLVUpe23OT
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 8, 2020
“Chris Wallace, who beclowned himself with a shamefully biased debate performance—universally panned—continues to demonstrate his rank partisanship. Urging that we follow the law & that election recounts be actually completed is not somehow undermining democracy,” Cruz said.
