Ex-Senator Who Endorsed Josh Hawley Regrets Support After Capitol Riots
On 1/7/21 at 10:43 PM EST
Former Republican Missouri Senator and United Nations Ambassador John C. Danforth has said he regrets having endorsed Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley during the 2018 midterm elections since Hawley led Wednesday s Senatorial Republican challenge of the Electoral College s vote in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life, Danforth said in a Thursday phone interview with the
St. Louis Post Dispatch. [Hawley] is doing real harm. What he s doing to his party is one thing. What he s doing to the country is much worse.
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GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska called his colleague Sen. Josh Hawley s attempts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results really dumbass and a terrible idea in a Friday interview on NPR. This was a stunt, it was a terrible, terrible idea, and you don t lie to the American people, and that s been going on, Sasse said.
Hawley is accused inciting the rioters who mounted an armed insurrection on the US Capitol by pushing false and misleading claims about voting and election irregularities.
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on the fallout of the storming of the Capitol by a mob of pro-Trump loyalists (all times local): 6:40 p.m. Former U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. is criticizing President Donald Trump for prioritizing his own interests over the nation’s following the deadly siege of the Capitol by the president’s supporters. In a statement Thursday, the Trump-era ambassador called on Americans to join together and push through this “anguishing period of history.” His comments come a day after violent protesters broke into the U.S. Capitol, forcing Congress members to halt the