Dick Durbin Flunks History 

Last night on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) remarked that “The Senator from Texas [ref. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)] says, ‘We just want to create a little commission—ten days—we’re gonna audit all the states, particularly the ones in contention here, and find out what actually occurred.’” Durbin continued:

“And it [Cruz’s ‘commission’ proposal] really draws its parallel in 1876, Hayes and Tilden. Don’t forget what that commission, that so-called ‘political compromise’ achieved.  It was not just some ordinary governmental commission. It was a commission that killed Reconstruction, that established Jim Crow, that even after a Civil War that tore this nation apart, it re-enslaved African-Americans, and it was a commission that invited the same voter suppression we are still fighting today in America.”

Sen. Durbin is correct. The U.S. Presidential election of 1876 is parallel to the election of 2020 in that Cruz’s proposed “commission” does seek to alter the results of the apparently official Electoral College outcome.

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