Mitt Romney Snarled at Ted Cruz on Jan. 6: 'This Is What You've Gotten Us!'

Senator Mitt Romney snarled at fellow Republican Senator Ted Cruz during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, according to Cruz's new book due to be published on October 25.

The Texas senator makes the claim in Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System and writes about his decision to object to the certification of Electoral College votes from the 2020 presidential election.

In his book, Cruz described how senators and members of the House of Representatives departed their joint session on January 6 so that each chamber could debate objections separately.

While Republican Senator James Lankford was speaking "there was a commotion from outside the chamber."

"Suddenly, Capitol Police officers rushed in and hastily escorted the vice president off the dais," Cruz wrote. "Shortly thereafter, we paused the proceedings. In the fog of the confusion, it was difficult to tell what exactly was happening. We were informed that a riot had broken out and that rioters were attempting to violently breach the Capitol building."

Cruz and the other senators were initially told to remain in the chamber by Capitol police but were then told to evacuate and proceeded to a secure, undisclosed location.

"In the secure location, tempers were high. Many senators were scared," the Republican wrote.

"Others were angry. Amid the chaos, more than one senator expressed rage at those of us who had objected to the certification of the election, blaming us explicitly for the violence that was occurring," Cruz said.

"As we evacuated the floor, Mitt Romney turned to me and the other objectors
and said with a snarl, 'This is what you've gotten us!' And the Democrats were even angrier," he wrote.

Newsweek has asked Senator Romney's office for comment.

Cruz went on to say that some of those Republicans who supported objections to the Electoral College vote "argued that in the face of the riot, we should suspend our objections and vote to certify the election."

"I understood the sentiment. But I vehemently disagreed with it. I urged my colleagues that the course of action we were advocating was the right and principled one," he wrote.

Cruz quotes himself as saying at the time: "I'll be damned if I allow a
handful of violent rioters to change our willingness to fulfill our constitutional responsibility."

"When they stormed the Capitol that day and assaulted police officers, these rioters wanted to stop the government from working; I wasn't going to let them," the senator said in his book.

Cruz ultimately voted to object to the certification of Arizona and Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes. The election results were ultimately certified by both chambers of Congress when they reconvened following the breach at the Capitol. Romney did not vote to object to either state's votes.