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Republican Beth Van Duyne’s failed leadership in TX-24 has made her one of the most vulnerable members of Congress in the country – and today, on the 6-month anniversary of the deadly January 6th Capitol attack, she was officially put on notice when she got her first Democratic challenger of the 2022 cycle.
One of Van Duyne’s first acts as a member of Congress was to challenge the 2020 presidential election results, shamelessly promoting the “Big Lie” that the election was stolen just hours after an armed, violent mob swarmed the Capitol and endangered the lives of members, staff, Capitol Police, and the Vice President. Weeks later, she turned her back on working families, veterans, and small businesses across Texas in desperate need of pandemic relief when she voted against the American Rescue Plan and opposed House Democratic efforts to kickstart our pandemic-battered economy.
Voters in Texas won’t forget that Beth hung them out to dry – and from now until Election Day, she’ll have to answer for her record of abandoning her constituents and promoting dangerous conspiracy theories.
“Beth Van Duyne’s extreme record has made her one of the most endangered members of Congress,” said DCCC spokesperson Monica Robinson. “Instead of delivering COVID-19 relief to small businesses, veterans, and working families in her district, Beth’s defining ‘yes’ vote in Congress was to promote dangerous conspiracy theories and challenge the 2020 election results just hours after a violent mob swarmed the Capitol. Beth Van Duyne’s priorities are shamefully out of step with TX-24 — and her re-election prospects are looking more grim by the day.”
Texans won’t forget Beth Van Duyne’s extreme, out-of-step record of:
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Challenging the 2020 presidential election results just hours after an armed, violent mob swarmed the Capitol and endangered the lives of members, staff, Capitol Police, and the Vice President,
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Voting against the American Rescue Plan, which delivered more than $1 billion in funding to counties that make up TX-24, provided resources to get the vaccine to Texans, sent $1,400 checks to many households, provided support for hardest-hit small businesses like restaurants and music venues, and helped get people back to work as employers got access to loans,
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Pushing to gut the Affordable Care Act, the health care law that protects people with pre-existing conditions and provided many Texans health care during a global pandemic,
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Advancing extreme, fear-mongering conspiracy theories that “turned Irving into a hotbed of hatred,” and “capitalizing on bad journalism and half-baked chain emails to make herself a star of the nation’s anti-Sharia movement,”
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Creating division over the course of a political career defined by her “contentious, sometimes caustic personality,” including being taken to court by a constituent she called a “whore” and a neighbor who was stiffed out of nearly $2,000 in unpaid work, and
- Ducking and dodging the press, including freezing out the Texas Observer in 2016 and attacking reporters for doing their jobs.
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