Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate for an Ohio seat in the U.S. Senate, said on Friday that the Palestinian people were “acting like animals” and that they were “from a fictional land.” Mandel also called for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to be deported and described Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) as “the spokesman for Hamas.” Mandel made the comments during an appearance...
Election conspiracy theorists force another audit — this time in Georgia
A county court judge in Georgia on Friday agreed to let a group of election conspiracy theorists examine 145,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County in the 2020 general election, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, marking the latest attempt to search for voter fraud that multiple recounts and audits have already determined did not exist. Georgia has already had three recounts of...
GOP lawmakers aim to slash highway funds after saying they backed ‘real’ infrastructure
Republicans in Congress have spent weeks trying to frame themselves as committed to investing in “real” infrastructure. But a new House GOP bill would cut off most of the funding for the existing federal investment in transportation infrastructure. Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM) introduced a bill this week to suspend the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax for at least six months...
Madison Cawthorn says his ‘service as a husband’ kept him from voting on bills
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) said on Thursday that he has missed more votes than any other freshman member of Congress because he chose to go on honeymoon with his wife when the votes were held. A report from Axios showed that Cawthorn has missed 16.2% of the votes in the current session of Congress, three percentage points more than the next closest member, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA). Cawthorn has...
GOP congressman finds out defending Capitol rioters has consequences
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has been one of the most vocal defenders in Congress of the Capitol insurrectionists. In recent days, he’s started to face the consequences. Last week, Gosar — who spread bogus conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that fueled the deadly Jan. 6 attack and voted to overturn its results — proclaimed the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol to be “peaceful...
GOP candidate for Pennsylvania governor serves on hate group advisory board
Lou Barletta, a former congressman from Pennsylvania who is running for the Republican nomination for governor of the state, is on the advisory board of an anti-immigrant hate group whose founder has ties to the white supremacist eugenics movement, a fact pointed out by Media Matters for America on May 18. Barletta announced his run the day before Media Matters’ story was published. Current...
Cheney challenger calls himself ‘Romeo’ for impregnating 14-year-old when he was 18
A Wyoming Republican state senator running to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her seat in Congress admitted on Thursday to impregnating a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 — attributing the story to the “Fake News Media.” Bouchard made the revelation in a Facebook live video, in which he blamed the emergence of the story on “dirty politics” and “the establishment...
House GOP wants to designate debt a ‘security threat’ after voting to increase it
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wants Congress to declare the U.S. national debt a “threat to the national security of the United States” and to commit to “addressing the fiscal crisis.” But he and most of the Republican lawmakers backing his resolution voted for the tax cuts in 2017 that helped exacerbate the problem. Biggs introduced the resolution on Thursday and already has 26...
Senate GOP plans to use their first filibuster to block Jan. 6 commission
The odds that the Senate will pass a bipartisan commission to study the origins of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol are growing increasingly slim, as Senate Republicans are coming out one by one to say they do not support the probe. Even Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump for inciting the violent insurrection say they do not support the commission, twisting themselves in pretzels to...
Top Arizona election official says GOP election audit compromised voting machines
The Republican-led audit of Arizona’s 2020 election results has run into more problems, after Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said the auditors carelessness with voting equipment left machines vulnerable to tampering and recommended that entirely new equipment be purchased for future elections. Hobbs, a Democrat, made the comments in a Thursday letter to the Maricopa County Board of...