Long Island liar George Santos is running for re-election
Long Island liar George Santos runs for re-election: Republican fabulist brushes off multiple surveys and loses fundraising money to announce 2024 run – but speaker McCarthy keeps open option of backing challenger
- New York Representative George Santos has announced that he is running for a second term
- Comes as he unveiled seven new bills on Monday — one named after rapper Nicki Minaj that would see new vaccines go through a ‘development period’
- After being elected in 2022, it was revealed that Santos lied about his family history and fabricated much of his resume.
George Santos announced Monday that he is running for reelection in 2024 despite being exposed as a pathological liar and facing intense backlash from his Long Island voting bloc for fabricating his resume to get elected.
The announcement comes after Santos also unveiled seven new bills on Monday, including one named after female rap star Nicki Minaj that would tighten laws around new vaccine approvals.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy declined to say whether he would support Santos’ reelection campaign.
Santos, a Republican congressman, played coy for weeks after taking office in January about whether to seek another term, but insisted he would not resign despite protests in his home district.
New York Representative George Santos announced Monday that he is running for a second term, despite fabricating much of the resume that got him elected in the first place in 2022
The liar congressman added a link to donations for his reelection, though he is under investigation for campaign finance law violations regarding where the money came from for his run
Now, 100 days after taking his oath, Santos confirmed he is seeking a second term.
“As a first-generation American, I am no stranger to the issues affecting my district,” Santos began in his re-election statement, which included several claims that have been questioned during his few months in Congress.
McCarthy, the top Republican in the House, chuckled when reporters asked at the Capitol on Monday if he would support re-election for one of his most controversial members.
“We’ll wait and see who else submits,” he said, opening up the possibility that he could support a challenger for the seat that turned red to help Republicans win a majority in the lower chamber for the second half of the tenure of President Joe Biden. .
Several of the claims Santos has made about his resume and past have been questioned since winning the election in November 2022, including his Jewish ethnicity, his education, and his past relationships as the first openly gay Republican to serve in Congress.
“I grew up poor with a single mother, and the American dream allows a poor boy of immigrant parents in Queens to grow up to serve his community in the halls of Congress,” Santos said in his re-election announcement.
Monday was a busy day for Santos as he unveiled seven new bills along with his re-election campaign
The Minaj bill is one of the bills, named after rapper Nicki Minaj, and would require a “development period” for new vaccines to increase “public confidence” in them
Monday was a busy one for the congressman as he announced his rerun in conjunction with seven new bills.
The Minaj Act, named after the rapper who expressed skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, would require a waiting period for new vaccinations.
There isn’t much information on the bill or what he defines as a “development period,” which he says is designed to bolster “public confidence” in inoculations before they are made available.
Minaj, who grew up in Queens, New York, claimed one of her cousin’s friends became “impotent” after getting the 2021 coronavirus shot.