When You’ve Lost Chuck Todd

"This fire was started when you completely ignored, for example, our investigation of Hunter Biden" -- Ron Johnson's defense on Meet the Press of his efforts to overturn Trump's election loss was pure whataboutism pic.twitter.com/ISgCVh3LrY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 3, 2021

TODD: Why didn't you hold hearing about 9/11 truthers? Plenty of people think it was an inside job

RON JOHNSON: I could've held hearings on all kinds of things

T: The moon landing?

J: You have to pick & choose

T: I think you need to look in the mirror pic.twitter.com/QL2TmWwsrM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 3, 2021

And this us why none of the 12 went on CNN:

Ted Cruz tells Maria Bartiromo that the "electoral commission" he's demanding could ultimately "set aside" the election results -- the implication being that this would clear the way for another Trump term pic.twitter.com/F7xuIe0FYL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 3, 2021

Sure, that could happen:

Trump tweets the flagrantly unconstitutional suggestion that the Jan. 20 inaguration can be suspended.

This will not happen, but if it did, Pelosi would be president, not Trump. pic.twitter.com/jSK5JdFQuP

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 3, 2021

I'm guessing the Q-Anon folks got this despite the cross-talk:

speaking to a narrower and narrower audience here: how many Americans can follow Johnson's line of argument - such as it is - except for the most die-hard of Trump supporters?https://t.co/4PjC1C3Ujk

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) January 3, 2021

Ted Cruz heard what happened on MTP:

I think we need to tone *up* the rhetoric. You are the one making it a volatile situation, @tedcruz. You’re trying to steal an election (for a guy who called your wife ugly!). Don’t get surprised when people react accordingly. Bring back tarring and feathering!!! https://t.co/J152ZrwIFM

— Patterico (@Patterico) January 3, 2021

And really, this deserves wider discussion:

In which @SenTedCruz, styling himself as an election history expert, suggests that Congress should follow the precedent set when a Republican was handed the presidency in return for giving the South permission to get rid of Black people's civil rights without federal interference pic.twitter.com/R46gBeMhTg

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 3, 2021

Well, and this, too:

Media: @jaketapper in today's homily: "Please note how many of the #Republicans objecting to @JoeBiden's win are also willing to raise questions about their own victories at the ballot box on the same day on the same ballot using the same voting systems. How many of them? Zero." pic.twitter.com/12CQRJdgMB

— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) January 3, 2021