As Hegseth pushed Talarico to explain why he and his fellow Democrats fled Texas to deny their Republican colleagues a quorum to pass anti-voting rights legislation, the lawmaker pulled no punches, telling him, “You have made a lot of money personally and you have enriched a lot of corporations with advertising by getting on here and spewing lies and conspiracy theories to folks who trust you.” “So what I’m asking you to do is to tell your voters right that Donald Trump lost the election in 2020,” he continued. Hegseth continued to talk over him, but the smiling representative was undeterred. “Did Donald Trump lose the election in 2020?” he asked again. “Can you answer the question?”