A New Crop Of Crazies May Soon Hold House Seats

Dana Milbank writes for the Washington Post:

There’s the woman from North Carolina who was accused of hitting one husband with an alarm clock, trying to hit another with a car (and also menacing him with a frying pan) and punching her daughter. She denies that, though she also invoked a conspiracy belief that alien lizards control the government. There’s the man from Michigan who claimed that Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman participated in a satanic ritual.

Then there are: the Texas woman accused by her estranged husband of cruelty toward his teenage daughter; the Colorado woman who backed an effort to secede from her state; the Virginia woman who speculated that rape victims wouldn’t get pregnant. What they all have in common is that they’re in competitive races, which means they could well be part of a Republican House majority in January.

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Think you already know crazy? Meet the House GOP Class of ‘22. My latest column: https://t.co/6L3dtF5INh

— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) October 7, 2022