The GOP’s George Santos Problem

As incoming GOP congressman George Santos apologizes for embellishing his resume, new false claims emerge. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto and Tim Miller explain how the scandal is threatening Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s speakership vote next week.

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[leeboriack]

Santos is as dangerous and powerful as we allow him to be.

[cdes]

The gift that keeps on being unwrapped.

[tvdinner]

My mom died in the Apollo 13 in 1999, just after she won the men's doubles at Wimbledon...alone in 2009.

[warrenwalker]

We're going to have a new expression it's going to be ; "Pulling a Santos"

[auntiepha]

The party of personal responsibility folks!

[justayoutuber]

Just find out where he got the $700, 000 campaign donation.

[p.j.]

Santos meets all the requirements to lead GOP....he just exceeded Trump and Desantis.

[farokudahitam]

But surely being a Republican makes it okay

[mvvpro]

"My parents were not really survivors of the Holocaust, they were survivor-ish."

[guywallace]

I heard George Santos quarterbacked the Cleveland Browns to a Superbowl victory, throwing 5 touchdown passes and running for 2 more touchdowns and 150+ yards! Then pitched 3 no-hitters in a row for the NY Yankees in the same year!

[Bignickfor]

I am 70 years old and I never had children. All the issues being debated theses days, like gender ( I has no stance on this) CRT in schools, banning books, drag story time ( no opinion on that). Biggest reason for to restrict these things is because of the children. But teaching children that lying and cheating is just fine is by far much more damaging. Unless you think that lying and cheating is a good thing as most politicians seems to think it is.

[Ozone]

If Santos keeps getting the headlines he'll soo start to annoy Trump, who does not like sharing attention.

[chrisose]

The GOP reaction to Santos is proof that ethics are no longer a part of the GOP.

[edwinnakamura]

Word has it……with so much embellishments, he claimed he’s Batman!!

[simonmagid]

The GOP has no problem with George Santos. And that's the problem.

[mkay]

His opponent did go to the media with information but they ignored it because they just figured Santos wasn't going to win so it wasn't important to investigate.

[jwanie]

2:27 it's also because George Santos currently represents a swing district, while Madison Cawthorn's district was a safe Red one. If the GOP had a much bigger House majority going into next year, they might've been somewhat inclined to remove Santos from Congress

[Amalgamotion]

The party of grift has a deep AF bench now. When they find out his name isn't even George Santos...

[bjstewart]

Victoria made some great points, have her back. Tim is good as well, always glad to see him.

[siatuvaismith]

Santos make American laws a laughing stock, if he's still become a senate..