House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's move to hold back articles of impeachment from being forwarded to the Senate shows Democrats are in a "total panic" after the vote to impeach President Donald Trump because their case has collapsed, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Thursday.
"[Wednesday] was a very, very bad day for Democrats, and it was a bad day for the House of Representatives and for the country," Cruz told Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
"When it comes to Pelosi, her threat is really quite remarkable. Her threat to the Senate is, 'Do exactly what I want, or I'm not going to impeach the president. I'm not going to send over the impeachment articles.'"
Cruz said his response to her is, "OK, throw us in that briar patch."
"Don't send them," he said. "That's alright. We actually have work to do. Some of us are showing up fighting for more jobs, for higher wages, for the working men and women who elected us."
Cruz also said Trump's comment to his supporters in Battle Creek, Michigan, calling it "exactly right" the president responded in real-time to the news of the House vote, with his comments that he is "the first person to ever get impeached, and there is no crime."
"This has never happened in the history of the country," Cruz said. "The prior impeachments, in every one of them, the articles alleged a federal crime. This one doesn't."
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