to run for reelection. in the fall of 2019 a multiple felony indictment was no bar yor to a republican s electoral dreams. chris collins and duncan hunter were reelected to congress in their districts despite the fact they were running facing serious multiple criminal charges. aside from duncan hunter playing the chivalry card and blaming everything on his wife, both decided to go with the trump era defense strategy, to claim you re the subject of a witch hunt. prosecutors are terrible people who are only after them because of political bias. chris collins and duncan hunter proclaimed not just their innocence but rage at being charged at all, how they were the real victims here. but then there s the way it all works out in the end, in october chris collins abruptly changed from the it s all a witch hunt defense to instead plead guilty. he changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on october 1st