following the republican or the public opinion that has been set by donald trump. but what you also see in congressman biggs s statement is this. there are some conspiracy theorists in the gop, even in elected office, there are conspiracy theory lite, if you will, as well, but they also face the reality that the party today, nearly two-thirds, according to some polls, believes the election was rigged so their political reality requires them to aggregate a constituency of those who believe it was rigged and those who believe it wasn t, and i think the most dangerous thing that comes of this, yasmin, is the premise, then, that if the election was rigged, then anything you do to respond to that is okay, from suppressing votes among communities of color to changing the administration of elections in certain states to the events we saw on january 6th. if we tear down the integrity of our election administration system, then any response by these republican followers is therefore justified.