More Than Half a Dozen “Stop the Steal” Attendees Were Elected to Public Office Last Night

In Nampa, Idaho, rally attendee Natalie Jangula gained a metropolis council seat, as did Watchung, New Jersey’s Christine Ead, who falsely blamed the violence on “ANTIFA and different anarchists.” Susan Soloway, who has the excellence of serving to manage a bus to move Trump supporters to the rally, gained reelection in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. In keeping with HuffPost, Soloway posted a selfie on Fb exterior of the Capitol, which she later deleted. In Braintree, Massachusetts, a former highschool instructor who resigned after a photograph of him exterior the Capitol was despatched to the FBI, gained a seat on the native college committee. Per Huffpost, Matthew Lynch obtained the second most votes within the six-candidate race for 3 open college committee seats.

Not less than one race involving a rally attendee has nonetheless not been known as; in a remark to HuffPost, Monica Manthey, who continues to be awaiting ends in the Annapolis, Maryland, metropolis council race, stated, “I’m not a loopy insurrectionist individual.” Requested if the rebellion prompted her to rethink her assist of Trump, she stated: “I by no means rethought my assist.”

As HuffPost notes, these victories are a terrifying glimpse of what’s to come back; not less than 57 state and local GOP officials attended the January 6 rally, and plenty of of them are up for reelection subsequent yr. They benefit from the assist of nearly all of the Republican Get together which, after pretending to initially be aghast on the assault on the Capitol, has now moved on. Rebellion, sminsurrection!

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