When House GOP leaders announced Wednesday which members got new seats on the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee, most coverage focused on well-known extremists like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.). New GOP committee members Lisa McClain (Mich.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Scott Perry (Pa.), William Timmons (S.C.), Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Gary Palmer (Ala.), Greene and Gosar all voted to overturn the election on Jan. 6, 2021. Freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla), who has said Trump was "the rightful winner" of the 2020 presidential election, has landed a plum spot on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. In January 2021, he suggested that just before the 2020 election, rich people colluded with liberals and state and federal judges to manipulate election laws in swing states to make it easier to vote and more difficult to challenge the results of an election. All told, these factors were “drastically worse than the supposed (and debunked) ‘Russian collusion’ in the 2016 election,” he concluded.

Source: Huffington Post January 19, 2023 23:38 UTC