Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has said that the idea of removing President Joe Biden from power by invoking the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution would be "dangerous as hell."
Cruz's comments came after Fox News host Tucker Carlson called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked in order to remove Biden from office on Monday.
The Republican senator was not responding directly to Carlson's comments when he was asked about the 25th Amendment on Verdict with Ted Cruz on Thursday—a podcast he co-hosts with Michael Knowles—but he offered a different view to Carlson.
The 25th Amendment allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to inform the House of Representatives and Senate that the president is unfit to carry out his duties through a written declaration. This would enable the vice president to assume power as acting president.
Knowles said to Cruz: "It seems clear, I think even to honest liberals, that Joe Biden has some age-related impairment. He's not the man he was five or 10 years ago and he was never all that sharp to begin with. So, it does raise the question. Should we be talking about invoking the 25th Amendment?"
"There's no doubt he is diminished—and diminished significantly due to age," the senator replied "I think the threshold for the 25th Amendment is really damn high. And it's particularly damn high when the voters were on notice of the impairment and elected him anyway."
Cruz went on to say that it was "not a secret a year and a half ago that Joe Biden had, you know, lost about 65 miles on his fastball."
Some Republicans have claimed that President Biden is suffering from cognitive issues and have called for him to undergo tests. However, Cruz appeared to reject the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment.
"So, I would be hesitant to go down that road of the 25th Amendment. I think it's dangerous as hell," Cruz added....
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