“The beauty of this country is that anybody who wants to run for office can,” Emmer said in response to the question. Tom Emmer of Minnesota - who leads the NRCC, the House GOP campaign arm - declined to say whether or not he would support “patriots” who attended the Jan. 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.Īnd 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. It’s impossible to know how many of the GOP’s still-growing crop of candidates this cycle took part in the riot. 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. In another photo from that day, the right-wing influencer displayed a white power hand gesture. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who posed for a picture the day of the attack wearing what appears to be black body armor. Then there’s Tina Forte, a long-shot GOP candidate seeking to unseat Rep.
But another Republican congressional hopeful, Teddy Daniels in Pennsylvania, posted a video from near the Capitol steps with the caption: “I Am Here. 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.
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