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George Santos Runs Scared from Questions on Abortion and Insurrection Support in Newsday Debate

Extremist George Santos refused to be honest with voters on his abortion record and backing of January 6th insurrectionists

When confronted on his extreme stance on banning abortion and his personal involvement with January 6th insurrectionists during today’s Newsday debate, George Santos cowered and refused to provide a direct answer.

Instead, Santos said he had “no record” to defend, and claimed Robert Zimmerman was “putting words in my mouth” on issue after issue. Since he refuses to be honest with voters, here’s a reminder of where Santos actually stands on the issues, in his own words:

Santos on Abortion

  • The Island Now: “If it is set down for legislation that we’re going to ban abortion in the United States and I’m given an opportunity to vote, in that case, I will vote to support the ban of abortion in the United States.”

  • Indivisible with John Stubbins: “Because nowadays, you know, to keep it very, you know, you sleep with your partner you don’t like, you know you had a bad day and you wake up pregnant and like ‘I was raped.’ That’s a little too loose. So if you’re really going to claim rape, then take it to the authorities.”

  • New York Daily News: “All of us in this room can agree that when we look at slavery, it was barbaric,” Santos said during an August event hosted by the Whitestone Republican Club. “Fifty years from now, we’re going to look back at what we’re doing in this country and we are going to say ‘we killed babies out of the womb? We aborted our own? That is barbaric.’”

 Santos on Jan 6

  • George Santos on Twitter: “The rampant FRAUD of these elections is frighting! I urge the FBI,CIA,DOJ to intervene, stop the counting of ILLEGAL VOTES! #DemocratsAreCorrupt #DemocratsAreCheating”

  • The Right View with Lara Trump: “Something I mentioned often: I was at the ellipse on January 6th. That was the most amazing crowd and the President was at his full awesomeness that day.” (11:02-11:53)

  • Newsday: “I’ve actually been working on funding a ton of them to get out. I went down to D.C. GITMO and I wrote a nice check to a law firm to see if we can help some of them out. Don’t want to publicize it.”

DCCC Spokesperson Ian Clarke

“The reality is that George Santos has spent the last three years spewing his anti-abortion rhetoric and bragging about supporing insurrectionists. Long Island voters see right through his ridiculous attempts to delete, deny, and distract his way to Congress.”

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