Hmmmmm?
Gonna be an interesting midterm election pretzel twist….
Maybe that historic midterm loses thing won’t come to pass next year?
The GOP’s political turmoil over the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeping into the midterm elections.
House Republican leaders have forcefully condemned the violent Capitol riot by Donald Trump’s supporters. But the GOP campaign arm is now in the uncomfortable position of watching several of its own candidates face sharp questions about their role in the deadly siege that injured scores of police officers.
One of those GOP candidates, Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin, has distanced himself from the violence, saying he left the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally after rioters began breaking into the Capitol and that he never went inside. But another Republican congressional hopeful, Teddy Daniels in Pennsylvania, posted a video from near the Capitol steps with the caption: “I Am Here. God Bless Our Patriots.”
Then there’s Tina Forte, a long-shot GOP candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who posed for a picture the day of the attack wearing what appears to be black body armor. In another photo from that day, the right-wing influencer displayed a white power hand gesture.
Those candidates’ ties to the Jan. 6 attack are the latest headache — and in some cases, potential political liability — for House Republicans as they deal with fallout from the Trump-led rally that metastasized into a coup attempt. It’s impossible to know how many of the GOP’s still-growing crop of candidates this cycle took part in the riot. But Democrats are already preparing to lean into the issue of Trump-linked extremism within the Republican ranks, which they’re betting will hurt the GOP in key battleground districts next fall.
And a panel assembled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including two Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, is seeking to investigate the circumstances of the attack, an effort that could keep Jan. 6 in the public eye for months….
Oh I imagine a lot of Republicans will support pro Terrorist candidates.
A poll the other day showed 40% + Republicans support “taking the law into their own hands” if “necessary(they themselves define “necessary” of course.)
I expect a lot of these kooks to be elected too.
The Republican Party 2021
Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va) is joining the staff of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, the third Republican that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has added to the panel that GOP leadership has attacked as a partisan endeavor.
Riggleman — a former Virginia congressman and Air Force intelligence officer who has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump — will be a senior technical adviser for the committee, according to two sources familiar with the selection….
“I have to say, doing this might be one of the biggest things I’ve ever done in my life,” Riggleman said in a video posted to Twitter Friday night touting his intelligence and data analytics experience.
A former member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus who was first elected to the House in 2018, Riggleman lost the GOP nomination for Virginia’s 5th District — despite having the backing of Trump — in a convention last year after his decision to officiate a same-sex wedding angered some local Republicans….
…[Liz] Cheney had been pushing behind the scenes for Pelosi to hire a Republican as an outside adviser or staffer to the committee, CNN previously reported….
By Jamie Gangel and Rachel Janfaza, CNN
Updated 10:29 PM ET, Fri August 6, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/politics/denver-riggleman-january-6-committee/index.html
Pelosi just keeps her foot on the gas pedal