Ted Cruz heckled on The View, blistered by hosts for Jan. 6 and kowtowing to Trump - The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON — Heckled connected unrecorded television, Sen. Ted Cruz sparred Monday with the hosts of ABC’s The View, who accused him of undermining ideology by trying to support Donald Trump successful powerfulness erstwhile helium mislaid the 2020 election.

At 1 point, a clime protester who’d snagged a summons shouted the F-bomb astatine Cruz, though viewers didn’t perceive it due to the fact that the web chopped audio.

“I’ve been precise vocal and precise captious of you. I’m atrocious that this has happened successful our house,” co-host Ana Navarro told Cruz aft an abrupt commercialized break, though she and different co-hosts rapidly resumed a pile-on, questioning his quality and judgement for allying himself with Trump and attempting to overturn the election.

“We whitethorn not similar erstwhile Republicans win, but … we don’t tempest [the Capitol]. We don’t effort to change” the result of an election, co-host Whoopi Goldberg told him successful 1 testy exchange.

Cruz compared “antifa” protests implicit constabulary brutality to the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected Congress, erstwhile a mob encouraged by Trump interrupted the electoral certification. Cruz led a radical of senators who challenged the state-certified results from Pennsylvania and Arizona that day.

When Cruz recalled that Hillary Clinton questioned the 2000 election, due to the fact that the Supreme Court had stepped in, Navarro parried by recalling however Clinton handled her ain decision successful 2016: “She called Donald Trump the adjacent greeting and she conceded the election, Ted.”

Cruz’s quality was portion of a circuit to beforehand his latest book, Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System, which volition beryllium released Tuesday.

Goldberg held up a transcript and announced that everyone successful the workplace would get one.

The co-hosts gave Cruz leeway to connection talking points.

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks Oct. 24, 2022, connected ABC's The View with co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin, right.(ABC/Lou Rocco)

He predicted a GOP “tidal wave” successful the upcoming midterm elections. He denounced President Joe Biden’s handling of borderline information and the economy. He called the House Jan. 6 committee a “kangaroo circus” and called it ludicrous for anyone to deliberation Trump volition hold to testify.

And helium made the astir of his quality by touting it connected societal media earlier and aft it aired, utilizing it to hawk his book.

The co-hosts were anxious to prosecute successful much unsmooth and tumble conversation, though.

“I would accidental your work was to a law democracy, not to Donald Trump,” Navarro said astatine 1 point, aft playing a snippet from 2016, erstwhile Cruz called Trump a “pathological liar” for linking his dada to the JFK assassination.

“It’s a precise antithetic Ted Cruz that we’re seeing,” Navarro said. “Were you lying past oregon are you lying now?”

Cruz gave overmuch the aforesaid mentation arsenic helium had during his 2018 Senate campaign.

“We had a superior and Donald Trump and I bushed the surviving crap retired of each other. ... Why did I take to enactment with him adjacent though I was pissed disconnected astatine what helium said? Because I had a occupation to bash and I had a responsibility” to 30 cardinal Texans, helium said.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned from Trump’s White House unit and has since go a critic, recalled rallying enactment for Cruz implicit Trump erstwhile she worked for blimpish House members successful 2016.

But she said, “Jan. 6 is thing I person a truly hard clip moving beyond. … How tin you beryllium good with these undemocratic actions and trying to disenfranchise 80 cardinal voters? And bash you judge Biden legitimately won the election?”

Cruz urged viewers to work his publication for his views connected Jan. 6. As to who truly won, helium said lone that “Biden is the president today.”

Hours aboriginal connected Fox News, helium called the amusement “a spot of a circus” but said conservatives shouldn’t beryllium “just preaching to the choir. A batch of the viewers of The View person lone seen 1 partisan communicative the full time.”

The amusement aired unrecorded from ABC’s New York studios.

In municipality a time early, the legislator headed to Yankee Stadium to watch his hometown Houston Astros clinch a World Series berth, conspicuous down location sheet successful Astros colors. Viral tweets showed Yankees fans flipping him the bird and shouting abuse, calling him a “racist portion of s---” and urging him to “Go backmost to Cancun!” a notation to his little getaway erstwhile a wintertime tempest knocked retired powerfulness for millions of Texans past year.

“That’s each right,” Cruz said arsenic helium settled successful for a grilling connected The View. “I was beauteous blessed with however the crippled ended.”

Heckling started moments later, with shouting astir clime change. Cruz glanced up and kept speaking arsenic the shouts continued.

Goldberg yet broke successful to shush the hecklers: “Let america bash our job. We perceive you.”

“I couldn’t adjacent perceive what they were protesting,” Cruz said.

“They were accusing america of not covering clime change,” Sunny Hostin said.

In September 2020, Cruz appeared connected The View to beforehand a erstwhile book, One Vote Away, astir precocious stakes Supreme Court confirmation fights. He besides blasted Democrats’ attack to the COVID-19 epidemic.