Gosar was the only elected official to attend the Friday event, speaking after former congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), who lost a 2020 primary after party leaders abandoned him over a string of white-nationalist remarks. In a brief interview after speaking at the CPAC panel Saturday, Gosar continued to distance himself from Fuentes’s remarks, which he said he had stayed in the room to watch. “There’s no room for violence,” Gosar said when asked about the Capitol riots. AD“I suggest that senators and members of Congress that fail to put America first should be held accountable at the ballot box,” Gosar said. “We thought about it, and we thought: There is a group of young people that are becoming part of the election process, and becoming a bigger force,” Gosar said.

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2021 17:15 UTC