This plan by Cruz would have been well known to Nanzi. She has a long history of Wrap Up Smear operations . Setting up the Capital Building for a riot would have been consistent with the way she operates. Her plot effectively killed Cruz’s plan dead .
The proposed plan by the Senators had a precedent, that included a Democrat-controlled House:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/donald-trumps-stealthy-road-victory-172235
1876 precedent: Coincidentally, in the contested election of 1876 between Democrat Samuel J. Tilden and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes —the best precedent available for a possible contested 2020 election (not the 2000 election)—20 electoral votes were under dispute, albeit from four different states: all electors from Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, and one elector from Oregon.
Both Tilden and Hayes electors submitted votes from these three states, each claiming victory in violent and confused elections. The Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-dominated Senate came to a compromise on how to resolve the problem by creating an Electoral Commission: a bipartisan committee of House Members, Senators, and Supreme Court Justices who would determine the final disposition of the yet-unassigned electoral votes…[Beginning on Feb. 1, 1877], Congress met in a Joint Session 15 times in the next month, until—acting on the decision of the commission—it awarded the disputed vote to Hayes, granting him the victory by one vote.”