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Representative-elect George Santos was a “special guest” at a far-right convention flooded with white nationalists, conspiracy theorists, and dangerous extremists, including his future colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene.
At the event, the New York Young Republicans Club declared ‘total war’ on all perceived enemies, embraced peddlers of the racist and dangerous Great Replacement Theory, and cheered as Marjorie Taylor Greene boasted that if she had planned the January 6th Capitol attack, “it would have been armed.”
Rather than be a voice for Long Island, Santos, who proudly attended the rally on January 6th and paid legal fees for insurrectionists, has stood by Greene and the other extremist attendees of this troubling event.
DCCC Spokesperson Nebeyatt Betre
“It should come as no surprise that George Santos is spending his first days as a Congressman-elect cozying up to conspiracy theorists and dangerous extremists. Santos has proven enough times that he will always choose his fellow far-right radicals over Long Island workers and families.”
Read more here:
New York Times: New York Republican Gala Draws House Freshmen and Far-Right Extremists
By Jonathan Weisman
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Three incoming House freshmen who flipped Democratic seats in November attended a conservative gala in Manhattan on Saturday — along with white nationalists, right-wing conspiracy theorists and European representatives of far-right parties with authoritarian roots.
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The event, sponsored by the New York Young Republican Club, has attracted attention for the remarks made by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Ms. Greene told the crowd that had she and Stephen K. Bannon, a former adviser to Donald J. Trump, organized the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, she would have made sure the insurgents were armed.
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“And I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won,” she told the audience. “Not to mention, it would have been armed.”
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But the three congressmen-elect in attendance have received scant notice, and their presence has raised questions about the influence of the party’s extremist fringe on the new Republican-led House.
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The Republican gala has become an unexpected flash point as the party prepares to take the gavel in the House after winning a razor-thin majority in the midterms. Democrats have questioned the silence of House Republican leaders since the gala’s attendance list and speeches came to light in an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s HateWatch.
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Mr. Santos, the only incoming member from New York who was there, is the first openly gay Republican elected without the advantage of incumbency. He made his name in New York politics with his adamant opposition to abortion, which he compared to slavery. But he also was a proponent of the false claims that Mr. Trump had the 2020 election stolen from him, insisting that he, too, had his election stolen in 2020 when he lost by 12 percentage points to then-Representative Tom Suozzi, a Democrat.
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