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Criminally-indicted George Santos faces 23 federal charges for shady financial schemes, both his former campaign fundraiser and former treasurer pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to his 2022 campaign, and a recent report released by the House Ethics Committee confirmed what we already knew: serial liar Santos has no business representing New Yorkers in Congress.
Despite his dishonest – and publicly known – track record, George Santos’ fellow vulnerable New York Republicans Nick LaLota, Anthony D’Esposito, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, and Brandon Williams purposefully stalled a vote to expel their serial liar colleague for months – and then tried to cover it up with a failed, last minute expulsion effort earlier this month.
Read more below on how New York Republicans will be held accountable for enabling corrupt serial liar George Santos.
Politico Huddle: Why expelling Santos won’t solve the N.Y. GOP’s problems
Nicholas Wu | November 22, 2023
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Regardless of whether he announces an early exit from Congress during his planned press conference next week, George Santos won’t be on the ballot in 2024. Democrats are gearing up to make the scandal-plagued New Yorker into a campaign issue anyway.
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With New York a potential key to recapturing the House majority – particularly its six GOP-held districts that President Joe Biden won in 2020 – Democratic candidates are wasting no time in highlighting all links between their Republican opponents in purple districts and the indicted Santos.
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Even as support for expelling Santos early grows within the House GOP, evicting the infamous fabricator won’t solve Republicans’ core political problem. New York Democrats don’t plan to stop tying their rivals to Santos if he happens to get booted from Congress.
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Other New York Democratic candidates argue that Santos plays into what they portray as an overall culture of “corruption” on the right… National Democrats are echoing that approach. DCCC spokesperson Ellie Dougherty said in a statement that: “Whether it’s on Long Island or in the Hudson Valley or Central New York, we’ll make sure voters know who’s responsible for enabling distrust and corruption ahead of next year’s elections – and that’s New York Republicans.”
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Spokespeople for Santos and D’Esposito did not respond to requests for comment.
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