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McCarthy, NRCC, Washington Republicans Embrace QAnon Conspiracy Theorist

Outgoing Representative Steve King was just the RC Cola Lauren

It was just a few weeks ago that Washington Republicans were bending over backwards to let us know that QAnon conspiracist Marjorie Taylor Greene’s beliefs were unacceptable and had no place in the Republican Party. NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer was having none of it, saying (through a junior spokesperson) that he was “personally disgusted by this rhetoric and condemns it in the strongest possible terms.”

So when last night, after another QAnon supporter, Lauren Boebert, defeated five term Republican incumbent in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, you might have expected some similarly strong condemnation from Minority Leader McCarthy and the team which answers to him.

Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.

Just minutes after Tipton’s concession, Minority Leader McCarthy called Lauren Boebert to congratulate her. And when asked whether the NRCC would prop up Boebert in the open seat, they decided to stand by her. In fact they doubled down on their support for her. NRCC Chair Tom Emmer has stated that he is celebrating her nomination.

So we thought we’d take a look at some of the intellectual diversity that Boebert’s QAnon’s beliefs are bringing to the caucus:

  1. That a DC pizza parlor is the center of a child sex trafficking ring
  2. Rampant anti-semitism
  3. Praise for David Koresh and the Branch Davidians
  4. That there is a global cabal of Satan worshipers who control the government (why you would choose to run for office and join them remains unclear)
  5. That there is an upcoming event, ‘The Storm’, where Representative Adam Schiff will be killed (No accident the NRCC cited Adam Schiff in their press release defending Boebert)
  6. That mass shootings are ‘false flag’ operations, or faked

DCCC Spokesperson Robyn Patterson released the following statement:

“Kevin McCarthy and Washington Republicans’ actions have repeatedly made it clear that hate has a welcome home in their caucus. But choosing to stand behind this dangerous and despicable nonsense is a new level of recklessness. If they care about the future of their party, every single member of the Republican caucus should call out this recklessness.”

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