Eric Cantor: Republicans refusing to tell truth led to Capitol siege [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Carly Roman 13 hrs ago

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said a failure by elected Republicans to tell the truth led to the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6.



In an op-ed published in the Washington Post on Friday, Cantor focused on the challenges to the 2020 election results but argued that the trouble began when conservative groups such as Heritage Action and Tea Party Express "purposely ramped up expectations" for Republican voters who wanted to repeal Obamacare in the GOP-controlled House in 2013.

"At first, this was a political headache for me and my colleagues ... but then a small group of lawmakers in the House and the Senate, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), started telling the base what they longed to hear: that Republicans could indeed defund Obamacare," he wrote. "These members, and indeed every other elected Republican, knew better, but very few were willing to say so."

Cantor argued that the same tactic of intentionally feeding voters misinformation to gin up the base pervaded in 2020, when claims of widespread voter fraud cast a shadow over President Biden's electoral victory in the minds of many Republican voters, even as the courts and election officials rejected the allegations.

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