Embattled US Rep. George Santos said he will only leave his seat if he loses his next election.
— was quick to clean up his statement Thursday that he would step down from Congress “if 142 people ask for me to resign.”
When criticized for claiming Jewish heritage by referencing his grandparents’ purported escape from the Nazis during World War II — for which genealogical records show no evidence — Santos took a similar tack.REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
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