Why would any US senator or member of Congress oppose an independent commission to investigate what led to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol—one aimed squarely at undermining American democracy & the peaceful transfer of power?
The reasons are as cynical as they are obvious.
The reasons are as cynical as they are obvious.
Republicans lied about the election being stolen. That lie helped motivate a white supremacist mob of Trump supporters to smash their way into the Capitol—some with plans to kill Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi—to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral win.
#TheBigLie
#TheBigLie
The GOP doesn’t want a respected panel of experts publicly connecting the dots heading into the 2022 elections and they don’t want to get on Trump’s bad side by supporting a commission that would show how his lie incited an attack on democracy that left 5 people dead...
#BigLie
#BigLie
100s of police officers injured & countless others traumatized. GOP-led state legislatures all over the country are using #TheBigLie to justify quickly passing bills to significantly restrict voting in ways that would disproportionately hurt communities of color
#VoterSuppression
#VoterSuppression
It’s no coincidence that the 4 states where republicans have filed the most bills aimed at restricting voting—Georgia, Arizona, Michigan & Pennsylvania—were some of the closest states in the 2020 election. All of those states went for Biden & have GOP-controlled legislatures.
It’s also no coincidence that of the 147 House & Senate GOPs who voted in Jan. to overturn the election,139 of them also voted to stop a commission from investigating the insurrection. They have attacked democracy TWICE in plain sight with the intention of preserving #TheBigLie
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