As House Republicans continue to prop up former President Trump’s lie that he won the 2020 election, they’re increasingly adopting another revisionist view—that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was no attack at all.
Election denialism is widespread among congressional Republicans, even as House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy publicly insists it isn’t.
“I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election,” he said, somehow with a straight face, after meeting with Biden Wednesday afternoon. “That’s all over with.”
His members—and more importantly, the former president—disagree.
“A lot of people question it, to be frank with you,” conservative House Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Andy Biggs told HuffPost Wednesday when asked about the election results. “I think we have some election integrity issues that we need to resolve.”
New York Rep. Claudia Tenney argued that “no one knows about what happened in the election.”
“We don’t know if it was stolen or not,” she told CNN’s Manu Raju.
State and federal courts have dismissed more than 50 lawsuits alleging fraud from Trump and his allies. And Trump’s attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, said in December there was no evidence of widespread fraud. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Barr toldthe Associated Press.
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