‘It’s Not Funny’: Colin Allred Scolds Ted Cruz for Laughing at Jan. 6 Comment

Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) scolded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during a debate on Tuesday after Cruz laughed at a comment he made about the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

During their Texas Senate election debate, Allred declared, “You can’t be for the mob on January 6 and for the officers. You can’t.”

Allred continued:

I was on the House floor when we went through the votes. I remember when you objected to the results in Arizona. Y’all at home might remember where you were on January 6, what you were doing. I know where I was and I know where he was. I remember when they told us to reach under our seats for these gas masks I didn’t know we had because they had deployed tear gas in the rotunda. The officers locked all the doors, we barred the doors…

And I texted my wife Aly, who was seven months pregnant with our son Cameron and at home with our son Jordan who wasn’t yet two, “Whatever happens, I love you.” I took off my suit jacket and I was prepared to defend the House floor from the mob. At the same time, after he’d gone around the country lying about the election, after he’d been the architect of the attempt to overthrow an election, when that mob came, Senator Cruz was hiding in a supply closet.

Cruz scoffed as Allred concluded, “And that’s okay, I don’t want him to get hurt by the mob, I really don’t. This election is his accountability. You cannot just be patriotic when your side wins.”

Asked by the moderators whether he supported pardoning those who took part in the January 6 Capitol riots, Cruz said, “I think the Biden-Harris administration has persecuted some engaged in a peaceful speech, and if you were being persecuted for peaceful speech, absolutely you should be pardoned. If you engaged in violence, absolutely not, you should not be pardoned.”

The senator continued:

But let me say something interesting. You know, the far left, they’re so angry right now. There’s so much hatred. You know, Congressman Allred just snarled at me, “You’re a threat to democracy!” Now let me be clear, I don’t know Congressman Allred, I have no animus for him personally, but I do know his voting record. His voting record is radical and extreme, and you want to talk about threats to democracy, let’s take the vote that just happened a few weeks ago on the floor of the House. The SAVE Act . The SAVE Act provided that in order to register to vote, you gotta prove you’re an American citizen. Congressman Allred voted no. 11.5 million illegal immigrants have come into this country under Kamala Harris and Colin Allred’s open border policies and Congressman Allred votes no to protecting our elections and ensuring that people don’t vote illegally. That is a threat to democracy.

During the same debate, Cruz repeatedly dodged a question about his stance on abortion, snapping at the moderator, “Why do you keep asking me that?”

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