GOP leadership remains silent over George Santos' falsehoods.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy walks from his office to the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 23, 2022. .
If Republican leaders demanded that Santos resign — and he did so — it would prompt a special election in a swing seat, a potential blow to Republicans’ already precarious majority. And the incoming congressman had pledged to vote for McCarthy for speaker next week, a critical display of support for the Republican leader, who is facing a mini-revolt on the right and needs every vote he can get.
“New Yorkers deserve the truth, and House Republicans deserve an opportunity to govern without this distraction,” he said. In his interview with The New York Post on Monday, Santos said, “I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
In his statement Tuesday, he said that he did not believe that Santos’ apologies in interviews sufficiently addressed his past remarks, saying: “I expected more than just a blanket apology. The damage that his lies have caused to many people, especially those who have been impacted by the Holocaust, are profound.”
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