Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw is HECKLED at his fundraiser for refusing to say the election was stolen
Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was heckled Wednesday night by a member of his own party after he told a crowd at an Illinois fundraiser that former President Donald Trump wasn't a victim of election fraud.
'There's certain states with problems, but don't kid yourself into believing that's why we lost, it's not. It's not,' the Texas lawmaker said. 'It's not, I'll tell you openly.'
Bobby Piton, a fringe GOP Senate candidate trying to challenge Democratic Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, shouted at Crenshaw, 'you're wrong.'
Rep. Dan Crenshaw was heckled Wednesday night at a GOP fundraiser in Illinois after he told the crowd that former President Donald Trump wasn't a victim of election fraud
'I have plenty of proof. I have proof in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia,' Piton claimed.
Piton, a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, launched a Senate bid after appearing as an 'expert witness' in Arizona at one of Rudy Giuliani's hearings promoting false claims of election fraud.
Going back-and-forth with Crenshaw, Piton said, 'And guess what, it's going to turn out and it's going to flip. You watch.'
Piton's pinned tweet proclaims, 'President Trump will be back in the White House this year!!!'
'It won't, it won't - and you've got to flip all five states,' Crenshaw said.
'Is there a lot of voter fraud? There probably is. Enough that Trump won? Absolutely not,' the Texas Republican continued.
'Five different states? Hundreds of thousands of votes. You're kidding yourself,' Crenshaw added.
Piton took to social media afterward to highlight the exchange.
Longshot Senate hopeful Bobby Piton trolled Crenshaw at the event and then took to social media to highlight the exchange
'I'm grateful I could expose yet another corrupt politician. Calling him a RINO is too polite. He seems to be crossing over to traitor status; putting globalist interests ahead of our United States of America,' Piton tweeted.
In another tweet Piton nicknames the Texas Republican #CommieCrenshaw and goes after him for blaming the right-wing Freedom Caucus for derailing immigration reform during the Trump years.
'Beyond disappointed in him and the GOP of IL is truly lost if this is who they think represents the future of the GOP,' Piton wrote.
Since being elected to Congress in 2018, Crenshaw has been considered a rising star of the Republican Party.
A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, serving on Seal Team 3, Crenshaw was wounded and lost his right eye, and now wears a trademark eye patch.
In April, he had emergency surgery to fix a detached retina in his left eye that was also a result of his injuries.
In the past, Crenshaw has tried to split the difference between those in his party who believe the so-called 'big lie' - that Trump was robbed a second term due to election fraud - and those like Rep. Liz Cheney, who have hammered the ex-president for pushing it.
On January 6, Crenshaw didn't join members of his party in a vote to invalidate election results in certain states.
He did, however, join in on a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that challenged the results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin because the states implemented pandemic-related voting measures that Texas claimed were unconstitutional.
A call to Crenshaw's D.C. Congressional office went to voicemail.