Challengers Forcefully Call Out Republicans for their Election Lies
In Georgia and Utah, opponents take on the "Big Lie"
It remains, of course, to see who'll win and who'll lose when it comes to Election Day in just a few short weeks.
But opponents of Republican incumbents in Georgia and Utah have used their places on their respective debate stages in recent days to confront a pair of well-known election deniers who are stalwart supporters of former president Donald Trump's.
During a televised debate on Sunday night, Democratic candidate Marcus Flowers accused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, of being at least partially responsible for the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, citing as evidence Greene’s false and oft-repeated stance that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
“You cannot accuse me of insurrection. I was a victim of the January 6 riot as any other member of Congress,” Taylor Greene said. “That was the third day I had on the job. I had nothing to do with what happened there that day, and I will not have you accuse me of that. That is wrong of you to do. You are lying about me, and you will not defame my character in that manner.”
Flowers sought to make his point by directly asking Greene a question.
“Did Joe Biden win the [2020] election, Congresswoman Greene?”
Greene replied, “Joe Biden is the President of the United States, Marcus.”
“Absolutely,” he responded. “But you pushed a big lie that said he did not win the election. And you drove those people over the Capitol on January 6 with your lie.”
As the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection have made clear, Trump knowingly spread disinformation about the 2020 presidential election by repeatedly — and falsely and baselessly — claiming that the election had somehow been “stolen.”
Greene attempted to interrupt the challenger, and when he stopped speaking, she continued voicing disproven election claims, ending with, “My husband has proof of it.”
The congresswoman's husband actually recently filed for divorce from his wife, who is running for a second term in Congress.
And a day later, independent candidate Evan McMullin used a very similar script in his Monday debate in Utah against incumbent Republican Sen Mike Lee.
“All the men and women, the 14 generations of Americans who have sacrificed for this grand experiment and freedom, they trusted you, we trusted you. And with that trust, and with your knowledge of the Constitution, Sen. Lee, you sought to find a weakness in our system,” McMullin, a former CIA officer, told Lee. “You advised the White House: Find an alternative slate of electors for Trump to overturn the will of the people. That’s what you said. You said that the president should listen to legal quack Sydney Powell, 'Please make time for her, let her in,' you told the White House chief of staff. You told the president that you were working overtime, 15 hours a day I think you said, to unravel this for him, to keep a president who had been voted out of office according to the will of the people in power, despite the will of the people.
“Sen. Lee, it is a betrayal of the American republic. You were there to stand up for our Constitution, but when the barbarians we’re at the gate, you were happy to let them in,” McMullin added.
Polls have fluctuated over recent weeks, giving Republicans less and more advantage going into the midterm elections set for November 8.
Correction: Utah independent candidate for US Senate, Evan McMullin, was misidentified in an earlier version of this story. It has now been corrected.
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