At least six Republicans who attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that turned into a deadly insurrection were elected to office Tuesday. Three were elected to state legislatures, and three won positions at the local level. huffpost.com/entry/january-…
Although most have claimed they didn’t breach the U.S. Capitol on that day, all were participants in the demonstration leading up to the attack, an event falsely claiming then-President Donald Trump hadn’t really lost the 2020 election.
Their victories on Tuesday are a possible sign of things to come: HuffPost previously identified at least 57 state and local GOP officials who attended the Jan. 6 rally, many of whom will be up for reelection — and will likely keep office — next year. huffpost.com/entry/57-gop-o…
Among the Jan. 6 attendees who won office Tuesday were two Republicans reelected to the Virginia House of Delegates: Dave LaRock and John McGuire. McGuire won his seat despite his opponent unearthing a photo of him standing by men in paramilitary gear confronting police on Jan 6. 
Marie March, a restaurant owner who bragged in a campaign advertisement about her attendance at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally and warned of a “coming Civil War” in a now-deleted Facebook post, also won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
At least two races involving Jan. 6 attendees are still undecided: Charles Ausberger’s Mansfield, CT city council race, and Monica Manthey’s Annapolis, MD city council race.
“I’m not a crazy insurrectionist person,” Manthey, who attended the rally but claimed she didn’t enter the Capitol building on Jan. 6, insisted to HuffPost. Asked if the riot made her rethink her support of Trump, Manthey replied: “I never rethought my support.”
Read @letsgomathias’ reporting here: huffpost.com/entry/january-…
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