Sen. Ted Cruz slammed Fox News’s Chris Wallace for “his rank partisanship” after the anchor compared Cruz’s support of President Trump to a Japanese soldier who continued fighting World War II after it ended.
“Chris Wallace, who beclowned himself with a shamefully biased debate performance — universally panned — continues to demonstrate his rank partisanship,” Cruz tweeted Sunday. “Urging that we follow the law & that election recounts be actually completed is not somehow undermining democracy.”
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
The tweet was in response to conservative radio show host Mark Levin sharing a story concerning Wallace’s comments comparing Cruz to a Japanese soldier.
“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 in the tweet.
Wallace made the comparison on Sunday after Cruz questioned 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 that 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 count any votes that were fraudulently cast or illegally cast.”
