https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ50o7QQylk
Here is Cruz posting on his web page on January 3, 2021 about him appearing on Fox News discussing forming an 'Electoral Commission' to conduct an emergency audit of the 2020 election:
Here is an excerpt:
"We have an independent obligation to the Constitution. We have an independent obligation to the rule of law. Look, we've got a vote on January 6 on certification, and every member of Congress faces a dilemma, frankly two pretty lousy choices. One, we can vote to certify [and] not consider any objections. If we do that, that will be heard by a lot of Americans as saying, ‘We don't think voter fraud is a real concern. We don't think these claims should be investigated thoroughly.' I know that's not what most of us believe. But secondly, and I think all of us rightly don't want to be in a position where we're suggesting setting aside the results of an election, just because the candidate that we supported didn't happen to prevail. That's not a principled constitutional position. That's why when in assembling this group of 11 senators, I was looking for a third option. An option that was really moored in the law.""I went back and looked at the historical precedents. I think the strongest precedent is the presidential election of 1876, Hayes versus Tilden. In that election, there were serious allegations of fraud in three different states: Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina. What did Congress do in 1876? They didn't throw up their hands and say, ‘Well gosh, we've got allegations of fraud but we can't do anything about it. We've just got to certify.' No. They didn't do that. What they did instead is they appointed a commission - an Electoral Commission - [which] consisted of five House members, five Senators, [and] five Supreme Court justices. They considered evidence [and] they examined the ballots and they made a determination based upon what the disputed ballots and what the outcome should be. What I'm arguing for is Congress ought to do the same thing. We ought to have a fair inquiry, a fair audit into these results, and we ought to resolve these claims - not just dismiss them out of hand."
So Ted had already laid the groundwork for a delay in counting the Electoral Vote, got 11 senators to agree with him, and announced his intentions on Fox News on January 3rd.
The January 6th Capitol invasion ruined those plans.
That is an incredible revelation.
The only thing I can think that would “validate” Congress pushing through with the certs is the fact that Inauguration is in late Jan now, whereas in 1876 it was in March.