Sen. Republicans Admit They Don’t Want Jan 6. Commission Because It Could Color Midterms – By Kate Riga (TPM) / May 19 2021
Senate Republicans are candidly admitting their political calculus in opposing a January 6 commission: they don’t want it to encroach on the 2022 midterms, during which they worry it would be “weaponized politically.”
In other words, they don’t want voters reminded of the attack their leader and party provoked as they mull over their ballots.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the Senate minority whip, told reporters that he didn’t want the probe “weaponized politically and drug into next year.”
“A lot of our members, and I think this is true of a lot of House Republicans, want to be moving forward and not looking backward,” he said. “Anything that gets us rehashing the 2020 elections I think is a day lost on being able to draw a contrast between us and the Democrats’ very radical left-wing agenda.”
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