The communications director of Ted Cruz resigned this Tuesday. He senator for Texas was one of the main drivers of the objection during the certification of the result of the November elections in Capitol, minutes before a mob of Trump sympathizers the headquarters of the Congress in riots that caused at least five deaths.
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Cruz’s office, who has held the position since 2005, sent a statement this morning in which you confirm the resignation of Lauren Blair Bianchi, until now its director of communications, who says that both she and the senator have agreed that it was best to “take different paths.”
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Blair Bianchi had worked with the Texas senator during the last 18 months. A Twitter account attributed to the official was put in private mode on Tuesday morning and no longer mentions Cruz in his biography.
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His resignation comes as Cruz, along with other Republican senators, faces a wave of criticism for his behavior. before and after the assault on the Capitol, an unprecedented event in the recent history of the United States and that sought to interrupt the democratic process to certify the victory of President-elect Biden, already ratified by the authorities of the 50 states and the Electoral College.
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Cruz, in particular, was one of the last speakers to take part in a speech in which he misrepresented poll numbers to justify his argument. Since the assault, in addition, he is one of those who has defended his position with the most passion despite international condemnation of the events and even when he himself Donald Trump harangued his supporters to “March on Pennsylvania Avenue” minutes before the assault.
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Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, have died since the attempted insurrection on January 6. The FBI has alerted all 50 states to maintain high alert for the threat of new protests eight days after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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Biden defeated Trump by a difference of 6% in the popular vote (about seven million votes), the largest in 12 years, which translated into 306 votes in the Electoral College, up from the 270 needed to win the presidency. .
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The current president has refused to accept the result of the election more than two months after the election, even though he has not presented any evidence to support his claims, rejected by dozens of courts, including the largest in the country, the Supreme Court .
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Some Democrats, led by Congressman Cori Bush (of Missouri), seek to promote the removal of lawmakers – among them Cruz– who supported the objections, accusing them that they incited violence by promoting unsupported conspiracy theories about “alleged fraud”.
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