Ted Cruz: “A cognitively impaired president in the hopes that upon…”

“He'd only have to show proof of life every once in a while. In other words, before Biden stepped down from the race, the plan for some aides seemed to be a weekend at Bernie's. A cognitively impaired president in the hopes that upon winning a second term, he could be hidden from the public while unelected staff took care of the real business of governing. When you vote for somebody, you are voting for the people around them, too. The aide offered as a way of justifying what was, by any reasonable metric, an effort to undermine democracy and defraud the American people.” (21:54–22:08)

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