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A number of Democrats and Republicans have adamantly rejected the idea that the Jan. 6 inquiry and hearings will have any significant impact on the midterm elections.
In exclusive interviews with Fox News Digital, several Democratic strategists, as well as Democratic and Republican members of Congress, dismissed the idea that voters on either end of the political spectrum might be more motivated to vote as a result of the Committee’s actions. of January 6. , and instead pointed to “much bigger” issues, such as the economy, which they say will be a bigger factor in November.
“The Jan. 6 commission is very important to the history and protection of our democracy, but we can’t ignore bread and butter economic issues,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California. “What will win the votes of Democrats is an economic vision of revitalization and job creation.”
The Jan. 6 committee, made up of 7 Democrats and 2 Republicans, including Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., held its first public hearing late Thursday night as part of his investigation into what led to the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Democratic U.S. Representative Ro Khanna speaks during a climate rally with presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Rashida Tlaib in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. January 12, 2020.
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The hearing is expected to be just one of many televised committee hearings, with the next one already announced for Monday and Wednesday next week, which they are expected to use to try to get Americans’ attention ahead of the midterms.
Khanna’s sentiment was echoed by Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov.
“I don’t think it will have that much impact on the midterms given the importance of inflation, gas prices and the economy,” she said when asked. asked how she thought the ongoing January 6 Committee hearings might affect voters’ decisions at the ballot box.
“It’s the economy, stupid. Carville is always right,” she added, referring to a phrase coined in 1992 by veteran Democratic strategist James Carville.
Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov.
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“January 6 is not going to be number one on the charts,” said Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall. “I don’t think it will affect voters.”
She added that the “much bigger” issues for voters would be the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, and the gun debate following the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Aus. Texas last month, which killed 19 students and two. teachers.
Marshall and Tarlov both predicted it was “highly likely” that Republicans would take control of the House of Representatives in November, but were split on what that meant for the committee’s inquiry itself.
Tarlov said he was confident the committee would have completed its work by November, but Marshall suggested that the investigation, if not yet complete, ‘would not continue’ once the House was under scrutiny republican.
Leslie Marshall, Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor
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Despite the bleak outlook for Democrats’ electoral chances, they each praised the committee’s work in conducting the investigation.
“The committee’s responsibility is to show the American people what their findings are,” Marshall said. “It’s very important to the American people to know how far people have gone to try to overturn a free and fair election.”
“I think the American people need to know whether they are voting or not, and they should be voting,” she added.
Tarlov said the committee “served a purpose” and that Jan. 6 itself was “a stark reminder of where the Republican Party is today.”
“That’s not going to be what gets people to the polls,” she added, noting, like Marshall, that Roe vs. Wade and guns “were going to be bigger motivators” than the Jan. 6 hearings.
Rep. Mo Brooks speaks to supporters during his watch party for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator from Alabama at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Huntsville, Ala.
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Republicans agreed that other issues, particularly the economy, would take center stage in November, but took a more negative view of the committee itself.
“The Socialist Democrats are going to use the Witch Hunt Propaganda Committee as best they can to help them and hurt the Republicans in the November election, but I don’t believe they will be successful,” Rep. Mo said. Brooks, R-Ala. , who spoke at Trump’s rally outside the White House on Jan. 6.
Brooks, who is running to take the Senate seat of Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. akin to the Russian collusion hoax.”
Agreeing with Tarlov and Marshall, Brooks predicted that voters care more about high gas prices, inflation and the potential for recession than Jan. 6.
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., argued that Washington, DC’s focus on Jan. 6, rather than issues affecting Americans in their daily lives, could actually drive voters toward Republicans.
“If you’re anybody last night, you come home from work, you just put a Benjamin in your gas tank, you spend an extra $300 to $400 a week on groceries, and you turn on your TV and Washington, DC is not working to fix these issues,” he said. “They do paid political advertising on ABC and CBS… That’s literally all it was.”
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., hosts a press conference at the Capitol Visitor Center on the eviction of Congressional offices from Department of Veterans Affairs facilities Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.
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Mast described the committee as “a distraction, misdirection, and sleight of hand,” before predicting that Republicans would win the midterms and stop the committee’s “inherently unfair process.”
“When in Washington do we have an 8 p.m. hearing?” he said, mocking what appeared to be the committee’s intentional attempt to broadcast his hearing on prime-time television.
“Americans look at this and say, ‘What are you doing, Washington? Matters. The result is that you don’t pay attention to what affects my life. added.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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