The other day, someone on another website (you know which) posted a video of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, insisting it was right before right-wing cultists attacked the Capitol. It was not; I knew because I was at the actual, forgettable speech in question. My series of verbatim transcripts of speeches nobody will remember continues here. Stuff like this is interesting t me, representing the last burst of apocalyptic GOP rhetoric before the event.
TED CRUZ
CUMMING, GA.
JANUARY 2, 2021
Thank you for coming out here today.
Let me tell you, the eyes of the entire country are fixed on the state of Georgia.
The forces that are seeking to tear this country down have set their targets on the state of Georgia. And the two U.S. Senate races you have here in Georgia, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, are without exaggeration, the most important Senate races in the entire country.
We have right now a 52-48 majority in the U.S. Senate. The state of Georgia is poised to decide who controls the United States Senate. Whether it's Chuck Schumer or freedom loving Americans who are going to fight for our constitutional republic.
You know, they say a gaffe is what happens when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Chuck Schumer caught on a live camera in a gaffe where he said: Win in Georgia, change the world.
That's what they mean. This is a question about whether the radicals drive the Democratic Party, because a Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to raise the taxes of every person in the state of Georgia.
A Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, wants to pass the Green New Deal and destroy small businesses all across the state of Georgia.
A Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to grant amnesty to 15 million people here illegally.
A Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to make the District of Columbia a state so it’ll elect two Democratic senators forever.
And a majority leader Chuck Schumer plans to pack the United States Supreme Court. To put four left wing justices immediately on the court, who will come after our constitutional rights, who will seek to take away our free speech, to take away our religious liberty, to take away our Second Amendment rights.
And then there is what they plan abroad. You know, Rich - and by the way, Rich, I got to say, it's really rough for you to show up in a maverick bomber jacket and make all of the rest of us look like wussies. The guy was literally the Marine who held the sword!
Let me tell you, a Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to gut the U.S. military.
You know, for a long time, we’ve known that the Democrats were in bed with China. We didn't realize quite how literally!
Look, as the son of a Cuban immigrant who sees firsthand the perils of Communism.
And by the way, Kelly, what is it with Raphael Warnock, like, embracing Fidel Castro You know, some of us take that little personally!
But as the son of a Cuban immigrant, I have said many, many times, screw the Chinese communists. Apparently, Eric Swalwell said, Okay!
That is what is at stake in this election. All of our rights, all of our liberties, because make no mistake, if the Democrats take the Senate, they intend to change this country not for a year, not for 10 years, but for generations. And I'm here to tell you right now that ain't gonna happen.
I’m proud to be in Georgia, because I look out on you and I am inspired. Each of you, look around at the men and women that are gathered here. You are patriots, just like the patriots gathered at Bunker Hill, just like the patriots gathered at Valley Forge, just like the patriots who forged this nation. The men and women gathered here to cross the state of Georgia are fighting for the United States of America. You are fighting for freedoms and I am grateful to be shoulder to shoulder with you.
Now, let me be candid. This is a turnout election and the Democrats are turning out their voters. You know there's an old story in south Texas and the sheriff, deputy sheriff walking through a graveyard, casting votes. They get about halfway through. The sheriff says, all right, we've got all we need. We’re done. And the deputy looks at him and says, Sheriff, I got to say something. This is wrong. And the sheriff says, what do you mean by that? He said, look at those folks over there on the other side of the graveyard! They got every right to vote as much as the people on the other side!
Are they going to try to steal it? Yes, but I'll tell you what we're going to do, we're going to win by a big enough margin ain't nobody stealing the state of Georgia.
We’re just a couple of days out from Election Day? Now, how many of you have voted already? All right, that’s strong. That means you’ve all got free time. I want to ask every person here to vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ten times.
Now, let me be clear. We’re not Democrats. Don’t bring your dead uncle Joe. But if everyone here gets nine other people to come out and vote on Election Day, who wouldn't have showed up and voted anyway? You just voted ten times.
Now, given what we're facing, in a very real sense the men and women gathered here could decide the fate of Georgia, the fate of this county. Pick up the phone when you get home today, pull out a pad of paper and write down a list of people you can call. Your brother, your neighbor, your coworker, anyone you know across the state of Georgia. Say, look this election matters to me. It matters to my kids. It matters to the country.
You are here because you believe in freedom. You are here because you believe in the Constitution and the fundamental protection of liberty that we enjoy as Americans proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with my friend Kelly Loeffler and my friend David Perdue. And we are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you as we defend the United States of America. We will not go quietly into the night!