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A Washington Post opinion piece today highlighted the extreme, “erratic” GOP nominees that are running in competitive House races across the country – with records that include accusations of domestic abuse, believing alien lizards control the government, and theorizing that rape victims are less likely to get pregnant.
The piece calls out Hung Cao (VA-10) for his assertion that “more ‘people get bludgeoned to death and stabbed to death than they get shot,’ which is wrong by an order of magnitude.” Cao made this statement in the immediate aftermath of the devastating mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 elementary school children and their teachers.
“The Republicans running for Congress this cycle are dangerous, extreme, and out of touch, and none more so than Hung Cao,” said DCCC spokesperson Monica Robinson. “Virginians won’t find anything in common with a candidate who downplayed the horrific, tragic mass shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 elementary school children. Cao’s extremism will cost him at the ballot box in November.”
Washington Post: Opinion: Think you already know crazy? Meet the House GOP Class of ’22.
By Dana Milbank
October 7, 2022
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“Can we have order in the House? Not if this crowd takes over.”
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“Much of the public focus in the midterm elections has been on the, er, exotic nature of the Republic nominees in Senate and gubernatorial races, and understandably so […] But GOP nominees for the House are no less erratic — just less well known.”
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“And that’s on top of a larger group of GOP nominees in deep-red congressional districts who are a motley assortment of election deniers, climate-change deniers, QAnon enthusiasts and Jan. 6 participants who propose to abolish the FBI and ban abortion with no exceptions, among other things.”
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“Some won nominations despite efforts by party leadership to stop them and continue without financial support from the National Republican Congressional Committee.”
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“Maybe this is why Kevin McCarthy, the man who as House speaker would have the task of leading this rogues’ gallery, calls his agenda a ‘Commitment to America.’ Many members of his new majority might be good candidates for commitment.”
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“Starting in January, a likely narrow Republican majority might have to find consensus among a freshman class that can’t agree on basic facts […] in Virginia, nominee Hung Cao asserted that more ‘people get bludgeoned to death and stabbed to death than they get shot,’ which is wrong by an order of magnitude.”
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“The House Republican Class of ’22 will be many things, but ‘boring’ is not one of them.”
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