lying ted cruz. lying ted.>> donald trump called his wife ugly and said his father was implicated in the conspiracy to kill j.f.k.! >> at first, ted took the high road, swallowing his pride and a few boogers along the way. but finally, he had had enough. >> cruz got on stage at the r.n.c. and he did not endorse donald trump. >> vote your conscience. that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack heidi that i'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father. >> the gauntlet had been thrown. no longer would ted cruz cater to donald trump's every whim. he drew a line in the sand and -- oh, hold on, i'm getting a call. >> hi, news ted cruz calling. i was calling to encourage you to come out and vote on election day. >> oh, ted. with nothing left to do, cruz headed back to the senate where he reclaimed his position as the most hated guy in the office. >> if you kill ted cruz on the floor of the senate, and t

can't you find somebody better than ted cruz to represent the great state of texas? do it for america. >> charlie, there a lot of great people in texas. i have watched closely as a lot of former veterans and former cia officials, folks have run at the beginning of the career as democrats not republicans. the republicans as a party that even pretends to care for national security and defense is over. right? a bygone e are. >> it is something completely new. this is ted cruz looking for new ways for people to hate him which is extraordinary. he was already hated why when i think of manly men and super

it's not just ted cruz, right?p or other republicans, of disparaging the military when it's convenient for them. that's something i think they should be called out for, not necessarily for a partisan perspective, but just in general. i don't know that democrats have really made that a huge issue as they try to gain the upper hand. it's a little bit perplexing because it's right there in front of them. >> also the soldier in question, emma malone lord, volunteered? >> yeah. i don't really even understand what his criticism is. here is a brave young woman who has two moms. i don't know if that's the attack. does that make her -- i don't know. >> almost as if saying the most outrageous thing is the only objective. >> i think that's right. >> ted cruz tried to run for president on, you know, fiscal conservatism and all of that jazz. it didn't really get him anywhere. >> it got him somewhere. he came in second. >> obviously he's taken a turn, realizing that this stuff, just sort of throwing chum in the water is the most

the dictionary has a picture of ted cruz at emasculated.has a beard that's -- that doesn't mean that it's going to be effective. this is what's happened to the politics. that it is about this posturing. who's the toughest. if that means contrasting members of our military with vladimir putin's army he is willing to do it. this is the -- we have talked about the post truth era of the politics. ted cruz and people like josh hawley and marco rubio and rand paul are also in the post shame era of our politics. they're not even embarrassed. what uses the word pansy anymore? it is offensive and lazy and dumb and keep in mind ted cruz is trying to remake himself from being the jerk demagogue from harvard into now what? you know? grizzly warrior who calls other people pansies. it is so pathetic and offensive and even by ted cruz standards it is offensive. >> it shouldn't go unnoted when i think as paul said nothing is sacred, nothing is beyond. there's no shame for politicizing the military and invoking the russians. i'm glad to talk to you both. my

said or is what ted cruz said simply true? follow up with. as brian williams as a journalist, maybe he would appreciate that. >> there have been follow-ups. any time a republican target the democrat or goes after woke culture, that republican is a member of the kremlin. i'm seeing a trend you're. >> absolutely. we know that that is what the mainstream media does. at the end of the day, i'm just so glad that we have some senators left like rand paul, ted cruz, who are willing to take the fight to the media and who are willing to call them out. we miss donald trump so much when we see that fire in the bellies of some of the senators and some of these representatives, it's refreshing to me. i hope they keep doing it and i will conclude that senator ted cruz is exactly right. the military is not a social experiment. >> and they are on a quest for russian assets, they may want to look to the white house where they have green-lighted this pipeline when senator ted cruz was someone who denied them and offering sanctions. >> while we

that's what ted cruz is doing.hat's the path of getting voters attention and it is not so much about the military. it is more about trying to appeal to an increasingly powerful group of voters who constitute the republican base right now. >> abby, some conservatives are also attacking the recent ad from the cia which highlights one of their diverse officer. >> i am a woman of color, i am a mom, i am a millennial who was diagnosed with disorders. i am unapologetically me. i want you to be you, who ever you are. know your worth and command your space. >> so abby, this is clearly the criticism of that. republicans do think they can earn points right now attacking what they call the woke agaenda. >> it is also about pushing back against what that ad is about which is about a person who's herself, diverse, and that plays well in republican party politics right now. >> right. >> that's why it is happening. >> congressman, i want to ask you one other thing here, as you sit in virginia and you are a 15-year veteran of the

i'm, like, ted cruz is a fascist. he denies the reality of the election.'t know. to me, it doesn't seem like a feud. to me, seems like i'm pointing out the fact that he is a terrible man whose words have resulted in death, you know. and i guess, to me, yeah, like-- i mean, it speaks to what i think is a bigger problem in america which is a false equivalency, and i was going to use the term "between the right and the left" which makes it seem like two appendage as of the same creature, which i don't think it is. i think one is -- one is a creature and the other's just trying to sto it from destroying the country, ( laughs ) and, so, i don't know if, like, is that a feud? i don't know. are those two things on the same level? like-- and i agree that, like, i think it's easy to say, like, that may be the left feels ineffective in comparison to how they should, but it's like if you were playing baseball against a team and, like, you're trying to get a lot of runs and the other team is trying to bludgeoned you to death, like, is it like shocking that you're not

servicenow. >>> senator ted cruz has never served in battle, but he sure likes culture wars.e's taking issue with a recruiting video from the u.s. army that features a real soldier's story. >> ail though we had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, i also marched for equality. i like to think i've been defending freedom from an early age. when i was 6 years old, one of my moms had an accident that left her paralyzed. doctors said she might never walk again. but she tapped into my family's pride to get back on her feet. eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom. with such powerful role models, i finished high school at the top of my class. i needed my own adventures, my own challenge. and after meeting with an army recruiter, i found it. a way to prove my inner strength and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way. i'm u.s. army corporal and i answered my calling. >> so, this is the true story of an actual hero who volunteered to serve her country in the military and for context, something ted cruz has not done. i want you to hear the texas r

thank you ted cruz. having said all of this it was a wonderful experience serving in the congress and a wonderful experience serving as speaker of the house. when you are speaker you have a lot of responsibilities, ceremonial responsibilities, institutional responsibilities but the number one job as speaker of the house is to protect the integrity of the institution itself. a lot of members talk and protect the institution but today it's a speaker's job to protect the institution itself. in the institution has been around for 240 years and around another 240 years. that means protecting the rights of the minority. it means having an institution where all members are taking care of and all members feel like they're being heard, you cannot allow the majority to triple over the rights of the minority. i feel good about the five years that i spent as a steward of the institution. i never believed that i would serving congress for a long, long time. in the early '90s i looked around and i would see a dozen me

let's watch. >> by all accounts ted cruz did not like the nickname cancun cruz. really won't like being called kremlin cruz after his latest and remarkably stupid lapse in judgment. >> harris: cruz hit back quote. is there a more pitiful example of corrupt corporate media than brian williams? now he is throwing a hissy fit that i criticized the woke video that the biden administration put out. use your condescending witt to call biden kremlin joe. he is illegally giving millions to putin. >> brian williams got fired for misrepresenting and now he goes to msnbc so he can be exactly who he is. yeah, ted cruz is now working for the russians. that's the accusation. and ted cruz is right. i saw these two videos side-by-side of the russian military recruitment video saying we want the best, strongest people possible to go fight and win our wars. then you get the woke nonsense coming from our military and c.i.a. touchy feeley. express yourself about the disorders and difficulties that you have. don't mention patriotism or america or defeating our enemies. just look at i

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there is one guy i annihilate, ted cruz. so one of your banner -isms is get the right people on the bus and help them find the right seat. who are those people today. i don't know i'm not there. i'm not the bus driver. i'm not sure who's getting on the bus. old management theory i always believed in. if you have the right people on the bus, once you're on the bus you convert what seats is best for them. i plenty of my own staff together in terms of overtime they've got other skills. make sure you get the right people on the bus, make sure they had the right seats. one thing to get elected for congress if some of the dumbest. some of the tranches. when to be of the leaders you have to get both from those who are elected. you might have another description that comes to mind. there elected by your colleagues is a really interesting process. people tie the going to bellevue and don't. try to gather their votes try to figure out who is being straight up with you and who isn't. the leaders have tough jobs, really toughre jobs. an

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he is smearing senator ted cruz calling him kremlin crews. okay, ted cruz, nice try.s after the senator tweeted out a video comparing a russian and u.s. army ad. let's take a quick trip down memory lane, shall we, remember lying brian reporting called out in a rack and what makes him the original purveyor of fake news, just a slight remembrance here. >> two of the four helicopters were hit by ground fire including the one that i was in. rpg and ak-47. >> i want to apologize, i said that i was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by rpg fire. i was instead in a following aircraft. >> sean: here with reaction, ted cruz, but my favorite was when he talked about all the dead bodies from katrina floating in front of his hotel that wasn't flooded. so i guess we could take his word for what they are worth, right, senator? >> the corporate media is liars, that's what they do. hillary clinton had a similar story where she talked about going from the helicopter under machine gun fire except that there was not machine fire from the helicopter, and i will say, you talked about b

ted cruz knows what he is doing. he is debasing himself because that's the price and ted cruz wants to be a part of it. we are watching it play out as the party moves towards ousting liz cheney of wyoming, the third ranking republican in the house. all because she refuses to debase herself, she refuses to say two plus two equals five to carry on the big lie that donald trump won the election that he actually lost. in an opinion piece published in "the washington post," congresswoman cheney defend herself writing the republican party is at a turning point. republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the constitution. the question is whether we will join trump's crusade to undo the legal outcome with all the consequences that might have. according to new reporting from "the daily beast" cheney's allies think she's a dead woman walking. donald trump endorsed congresswoman stefanik for the world which she boasted about in this tweet featuring the former president's save america logo. stev

god's sakes what do we expect i mean maybe we wouldn't be as angry at the stupid things that are ted cruz said if we remember he was from texas just like texas is known for its oil he's merely an example of the town's major export. reporting from a soon to be defunct coal plant this is natalie mcneal for redacted tonight and now for all the news we didn't have time to get through but now we do. want to hear. you know what you got so there was a viral video involving police officers but not i assume a funny dance right yes i don't want to talk to fans. it was actually teenagers on bicycles getting arrested in perth amboy new jersey they were getting actually one kid got arrested while the others had their bikes confiscated supposedly for not

god's sakes what do we expect i mean maybe we wouldn't be as angry at the stupid things senator ted cruz said if we remember he was from texas just like texas is known for its oil he's merely an example of the town's major export. reporting from a soon to be defunct coal plant this is natalie mcneal for redacted tonight and now for all the news we didn't have time to get through but now we do do we get out of here good to see you know what you got so there was a viral video involving police officers but not i assume a funny dance right yes i don't want to talk rock band. it was actually teenagers on bicycles getting arrested in perth amboy new jersey they were getting actually one kid got arrested while the others had their bikes confiscated supposedly for

incumbent upon us to reach out to that member of congress and senator and especially living in texas and ted cruz has got the plate full inspiring an insurrection. he may not picking up the phone when you call the white house wants to hear from you and i know that president biden made this a priority, voting rights, but he has other competing priorities right now. he needs to hear from us and if he uses the political capital he has now as president johnson did in 1965 he can pass the most significant voting rights legislation since the '65 votes rights act and it couldn't come at a more critically important moment with the violent insurrection at the capitol, 47 state legislatures passing or considering this voter suppression stuff. it is not like this can wait

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god's sakes what do we expect i mean maybe we wouldn't be as angry at the stupid things that are ted cruz said if we remember he was from texas just like texas is known for its oil he's merely an example of the town's major export. reporting from a soon to be the fog coal plant is now going to kill for redacted tonight and now for all the news we didn't have time to get through but i would only get one of you here good to see you what you got so there was a viral video involving police officers but not i assume a funny dance right yes yes i don't want to talk to fans. it was actually teenagers on bicycles getting arrested in perth amboy new jersey they were getting actually one kid got arrested while the others had their bikes confiscated supposedly for

i guess i started it. [ cheers and applause ] last night on the show, i mentioned the fact ted cruz gotk for being stupid.

think it's a waste of time and so, to coin a phrase, i think it's time to move on >> seth: i'm sure ted cruzot in his life ted, this relationship isn't working. it's time to move on ted, the beard, it's not a thing. it's time to move on ted, carly is not coming back. it's time to move on >> the next president of the united states, ted cruz. ♪ >> seth: remember that when ted cruz chose a running mate, and then, she, i guess, fell down an open manhole and disappeared forever. she probably staged that just to get away from ted cruz don't worry, carly, i'll come and get you. "that's okay i actually like it down here with the sewer people. "this is a sewer?" i thought it was an f train. oh, rudy you dope these guys backed nearly everything trump did for four years. then the second he incited a violent insurrection, they told us all to move on. like marco rubio had an especially cynical explanation for why he thought the media and the left were so obsessed with impeaching trump, for the crime of trying to violently overthrow democracy instead of just letting him off the hook >> this is not the rig

god's sakes what do we expect i mean maybe we wouldn't be as angry at the stupid things senator ted cruz said if we remember he was from texas just like texas is known for its oil he's merely an example of the town's major exports. reporting from a soon to be to coal plant this is now going to kill redacted tonight and now for all the news we didn't have time to get through but now we do. want to hear it good to see you good to see you what you got so there was another viral video involving police officers but not i assume a funny dance right yes there was. it was actually teenagers on bicycles getting arrested in perth amboy new jersey they were getting actually one kid got arrested while the others had their bikes confiscated supposedly for not having licenses for

just ask ted cruz, remember when ted cruz said this? >> i am going to tell you what i really think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. he does not know the difference between truth and lies, he lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. >> sorry, taking a little sip of water there as i watch ted cruz. i don't mean as a bad actor in the stuff he does. i meant his performance. and also look at ted cruz, all buddy buddy with the former president this week with mar-a-lago. joe biden is doing the job of a president. the president is pushing the vaccines and acknowledging there is a lot of work to be done in the wake of the jobs report that fell way below expectations by the way. >> today's report is a rebuttal of the loose chart that americans just don't want to work. i know some employers are having trouble filling jobs. but, what this report shows is that there is a much bigger problem. it is that our economy still has 8 million fewer jobs than when this pandemic started. the data shows that more workers are loo

people want to hear the hits ted cruz."py birthday! >> you know, yeah. it's a lot of attention for me on one day, i think. i'm scared that i'll never be the same afterwards. >> jimmy: yeah, i mean, you couldn't plan this if you planned it four years in advance. >> no. no, it was not my idea i want people to know that they just chose the date, and i was like, "that's my birthday. and they were like, "okay, we don't care." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: this season, i know there was an episode where you had to learn the electric slide. >> yeah. yeah >> jimmy: and you were talking to me about this now, why did it bother you or not bother you, but why is it still in your brain >> no, i think it became a big moment for me in my life >> jimmy: alright, explain this to me. >> well, you know, you think you know the electric slide, don't you? >> jimmy: of course. yeah, we all know it >> you've all been to a wedding or a bar mitzvah you know the electric slide. >> jimmy: yes. >> well, so we wrote it into the show it was like, "okay, this gir

just ask ted cruz. remember when ted cruz said this? >> i'm going to tell you what i really think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. he doesn't know the difference between truth and lies. he lies, practically every word that comes out of his mouth. >> sorry, i was taking a little sip of water there. as i wachd ted cruz. trying to figure out if he was a good actor or a bad actor. i don't mean like we know he's a bad actor in the stuff that he -- that he does. i meant his performance. and also, just look at ted cruz. all buddy-buddy with the former president, this week, at mar-a-lago. and while the republican party is tying itself up in knots, just to get an attaboy from the disgraced-former president, joe biden is doing the job of a president. the president pushing vaccines pitching his infrastructure plan, and acknowledging there is a lot of work to be done in the wake of a jobs report that fell way below expectations, by the way. >> today's report is a rebuttal for loose talk that americans just don't want to work. i kno

are going to do everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen, including "jango unchained" ted cruzllow people of color from voting. 's to cruz fired back, tweeting it is exactly this type of arrogant condescension that is pushing minority voters toward the republican party. and ask yourself, when will joy reid and others take responsibility for their networks attacks on prominent african-american conservatives, like against senator tim scott or justice clarence thomas, or kentucky ag daniel cameron. just a small reminder. >> if somehow they managed to stumble into the supreme court, can any of you guys trust uncle clarence and amy coney barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law? no. >> you can almost see the strings being pulled behind senator scott, he is articulating the very orwellian talking points. >> got to love tim scott standing there, the passing of diversity over that round of words. >> even more egregious, gutless black republicans who know what they are doing. what they are doing is there embarrassing the elders. they are embarrassing the ancestors

remember, ted cruz is one of the people who fostered the big lie after the election.a and states around the country is not about reacting to donald trump's defeat to try to constrain voting procedures. he's pretending in this article that that's what it wasn't about at all. it was expanding voting opportunities. we all know. the law is complicated and long, but it takes control away from the officials who certified that joe biden won the election. he is then going on to say because you are doing this, you woke corporations -- of course, corporations are simply recognizing the reality here. people who work for these big corporations, tend to be better educated and more diverse than the people ted cruz is trying to mislead with this article, and they're calling it out. if you want favor with your government, not pay taxes, i won't look the other way anymore because you're calling out the election, and i won't take your money. in essence, in addition to lying about the election and the efforts to constrain voting, he's also confessing that he doesn't make decisions about

you just mentioned ted cruz. amanda, this is a picture of ted cruz, who is your former boss by the way. he tweeted the message, had a great dinner tonight with president trump at mar-a-lago. he is in great spirits. we spent the evening talking about working together to retake the house and senate in 2022. so kissing the ring and a picture to prove it? >> i mean i guess the bright side is that heidi wasn't there for this dinner. i'm trying to find a silver lining here. here's the thing. there's a lot of republicans, even people who i think mean well. you know, let's take the editors at "the wall street journal," for example. they had an editorial out today talking about why a purge of liz cheney would be bad. okay. but then you read the piece, and they kind of say, well, you know, it would have been better if she would have been quiet about things. but then they turn around and say, but in order to win and expand the party, republicans have to speak truth to voters. excuse me? what are you talking about? this conc

on the day of the iowa caucuses in 2016, when ted cruz beat him, he said ted cruz only won because of illegal votes. donald trump became president and said the only reason hillary clinton won the popular vote was because of three million illegal votes in california. this is who he is, and the fact that republicans are now -- and for him it is not a political calculation. it is about trumpism, which is i am strong. i am big. i am better than you. and that is something republicans are now a part of. trump is in the party. and i don't see a way for them to get out of it. >> right. >> all this stuff, four, five years saying just humor him on some of the things that looking back they probably shouldn't have humored him on. >> right. electorally he's not big. he's small. he got fewer votes than clinton. he got viewer votes than biden. he's electoralically small. before i choose you, gene, can we talk blog really quick? >> yes. >> can we party like it's 1999? trump's blog is not lighting up the internet social media data. trump's online footprint is dependent on returning to those platforms

by senator mitt romney. >> 40 hours a week should live by the poverty line. >> reporter: what is ted cruz like ted's eyes are hooked up to his state's power grid. ted himself retweeted his sleeping moment, waking up enough afterwards to describe president biden's speech this way. >> you could sum it up in three words, boring but radical. >> even tweeted come on, nancy, agree, but showed a photo of the two caught mid-blink rather than mid-snooze. we hereby induct ted and mitt into the sleepyhead hall of fame, joining the ranks of bill clinton, whose arm slipped off an arm rest and ronald reagan dozing as he sat beside the pope. ruth bader gin burg blamed wine. and tucker carlson fell asleep on tv during a commercial, but none of these rivals the 911 dispatcher, who fell asleep after answering a call from a woman whose husband was unconscious. >> yes? uh-huh. >> at least when joe biden was vice president, he didn't snore when his boss was speaking. as for president biden's turn at the podium -- >> this was a frightening speech. >> reporter: frightened him to sleep. jeanne moos, cnn, new yor

i want to show this picture of ted cruz. isn't this the dream scenario where conservatives can complain about the ban but they get to put -- it's ted cruz who get to put the words in donald trump's mouth, not donald trump putting the words in ted cruz' mouth. >> certainly trump is playing one hijacked behind his back. beyond the data like she does but before the blog, unless you were on the press list, you were not getting these tweets in the former of press release before. it all felt very 2004 which is obviously totally contrary to what he's done the last decade. but i think now the debate going forward among conservatives will be over tactics. so obviously you mentioned creating their own social media platform. that's pretty extreme. if you wrap the facebook decision in with a lot of the conservative outcry over fortune 500 companies delving into legislation in the states, you're going to see a part on conservatives trying to replicate the noise and the echo chamber and the risk and make corporations very nervous. that wi

ted cruz could give a damn about jim crow.ver raised one concern about jim crow or racist or discrimination. what do you make of his lidle comment there. >> it could be comical if it wasn't so appalling and so many people wouldn't be deeply misled business hi misinformation and disinformation. listening to the hearings today and listening to the opponents of the for the people act, i couldn't tell whether this was projection or just inconceivable delusion or both. jim crow 2.0 is the tidal wave of the over 360 voter suppression laws that are pending in state legislations across the country. that's not what the for the people act intended to do. expand democracy and expand ballot access and voting opportunities for all americans. like their predecessors the vote you are suppression laws across the country in senator cruz state of texas, in the state of florida where we have sued and in the state of georgia where we have sued, we see laws that are so similar to their historical predecessor where soon as african-americans were ab

senator ted cruz is the latest trump loyalist to make his visit to mar-a-lago.ight alongside former president trump at dinner writing, quote. he is in great spirits and we talked about retaking the house and senate in 2022. cruz visit follows kevin mccarthy visiting trump just 22 days after the capitol riots. lindsey graham hosted a golf sweepstakes at mar-a-lago last week. >>> more than 52 companies and business leaders have signed an open letter opposing voting restrictions in texas. several companies signed on. the letter reads in part, quote. the legislation is being debated in austin this week with several other states in the midst of debates over voting laws, including georgia and florida. >>> joining me now, is boston globe columnist kimberly atkins and she is also an msnbc contributor. kimberly, thanks so much for being here this morning. this is a fascinating dynamic to me. i mean, we heard mitch mcconnell basically trying to tell ceos to stay out of politics. he then walked that back a little bit. but this is starting to pose a real problem for many of

ted cruz is one of eight u.s. senators if i'm recalling the number correctly who voted to reject the electors which essentially would have installed the loser, donald trump, over the winner, joe biden, in contravention of both the electoral college and the national popular vote. when you talked about this today, he did this similar move which is to look at his phone. take a look. >> when in fact you, senator cruz, not all of your colleagues here today, you were contesting the electoral college. you were meeting one of the leaders on the effort to say that the election results were not correct. and so you wonder why we want to make sure people have the right to vote? >> what was going on there? >> well, he made the claim that we didn't need to put these provisions in place and he went back of all ironies to 2016 and claimed that schou hillary clinton contested and we sure didn't have an insurrection like we did when he took the reins and claimed that the electoral college was inaccurate and we couldn't count the pe

and then, there's tonight and ted cruz.nior senator from texas his constituents were freezing. some dying in dark unheated homes during the state's worst winter disaster in recent memory. as for the senator, he just high tailed it to a seaside resort in cancun. lying about why he was leaving, and at the same time, blaming his 10 and 12-year-old daughters, which is kind of amazing, still. i still think about that. then, when the outcry got loud enough to hear over the roar of the ocean, back home with police protection. father's day, by the way, june 20th. these days, the man, whose own colleagues don't even bother trying to say anything nice about him has found a new way of showing contempt for the people he serves and who serve us, all, in uniform. he retweeted a tiktok of a russian man doing military training with a u.s. army video aimed at showing a very-american notion that our troops, in this case, a woman raised by same-sex parents, come from all walks of life. and this is a source of strength. holy crap. perhaps, a w

and lastly, i know when ever ted cruz grovels before trump, we point out that trump insulted his wife of killing jfk, but i also just wanted to point out that trump insulted his wife and accused his dad of killing jfk trump must be thinking, "what do i have to do to get this guy to stop wanting to have dinner with me?" anyway, the point is republicans have to keep making this dumb pilgrimage to mar-a-lago because they, and their voters, are fully committed to what trump represents, his brand of corrupt authoritarianism racist culture war paranoia is still popular within the gop even if it's deeply unpopular with everyone else as evidenced by trump's terrible polling numbers and biden's high polling numbers. the gop is now so committed to the deranged lie that trump actually won the election that if you simply state the obvious, that he lost, that there was no widespread fraud, and that he tried to foment a violent insurrection on january 6th to retain his grip on power, the gop will punish you as utah senator mitt romney and wyoming congresswoman liz cheney have recently discovered. >