TAKE with里克·克莱因
众议员利兹·切尼的下台可能是最明显的共和党拥抱前总统的表现唐纳德·特朗普关于…的谎言选举。
但是他更大的胜利可能会改写1月6日国会大厦袭击的丑陋历史。就在切尼被撤职人数惊人的共和党人怀疑国会议员们自己在国会大厦见证就在四个月前。
共和党众议员拉尔夫·诺曼说从未见过证据暴徒是实际上特朗普的支持者。Jody Hice众议员，R-Ga。，采取了相反的方法，认为“这是特朗普的支持者失去生命的人那天，不是特朗普的支持者们在夺取别人的生命”——并说了一句国会警察死于自然原因。
亚利桑那州众议员保罗·戈萨尔，触及相似的主题打电话给国会警察阿什丽·巴比特的拍摄当她试图闯入众议院正如美国广播公司新闻的凯瑟琳·福尔德斯和比阿特丽斯·彼得森报道的那样，这是一次“处决”。
提示众议员安德鲁克莱德，佐治亚州。，谁鼓吹这一事实“房子的地板从来没有被破坏过”，并说从那天的视频来看抗议者的行为以“有序的方式”
“你实际上会认为这是一个正常旅游，”克莱德说。
同样在周三，前代理国防部长克里斯托弗·米勒告诉立法者他“重新评估”了他之前的判断-回顾一份声明，他说“这是非常明确的”,企图叛乱没有它就不会发生特朗普1月6日早些时候对抗议者的讲话。
所有这些都是在已经成为主流的观点之上的——尽管同样错误的共和党观点——即选举被“操纵”或以其他方式被窃取。
荒谬的是，众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡在切尼被赶下台后不久说:“我认为没有人质疑总统选举的合法性。一切都结束了。”
切尼说她会把不让她的派对或者国家忘记了1月6日。但是她的许多同事在手工制作方面进展顺利他们自己的王牌以及对选举和政治的明显错误的描述随后对民主的攻击。
的纲要阿维·哈珀
一些民主党人已经表示愿意放弃党派理想赞成交易共和党人通过立法。
在国会大厦，参议员乔·曼钦，告诉美国广播公司新闻记者雷切尔·斯科特他支持约翰·刘易斯投票权法案。它的范围远比面临共和党坚定反对的《为人民服务法案》(H.R. 1)中提出的全面改革要有限得多。这是与党的领导的决裂，党的领导推动了共和党及其改革，这将是一个重大的突破系统检修。
曼钦说:“(约翰·刘易斯投票权法案)可以由两党合作完成，以开始恢复人们对我们系统的信心。”。
周末，众议院多数党党鞭吉姆·克莱伯恩放弃包括“合格豁免”，或降低在民事法庭起诉个别官员的必要标准，在警察改革立法。话题一直是谈判中的症结乔治·弗洛伊德治安司法法案，大多数民主党人都有构建包含改革中的豁免是不可谈判的。
“如果我们现在没有获得合格的豁免权，那么我们以后会回来尝试获得它，”克莱伯恩在CNN上说。“但我不想看到我们扔掉一个好的账单，因为我们不能得到一个完美的账单。”
而民主党完全放弃的可能性大胆的想法在…上热点问题喜欢投票权和警察改革不太可能，曼钦和克莱伯恩都摇摆不定可以表示接受当民主党在国会两院都以微弱优势自豪时，他们能得到什么。
小费梅格·坎宁安
经过一个有争议的初选季节和一个提名大会弗吉尼亚州共和党参议员阿曼达·蔡斯(Amanda Chase)充满困惑，她并没有放弃自己的说法，即选举过程受到了操纵。蔡斯是弗吉尼亚共和党州长提名的四名领先者之一，但在周末的驾车通过式大会后落选。
“尽管我们在昨天的作弊大会上功亏一篑，该大会只允许53，000名注册选民从投票给特朗普总统的190万弗吉尼亚人中选择我们的下一任州长;上帝仍在掌控之中，”她在一份声明中写道脸书周三之后。“虽然在接下来的几天里我会有更多的话要说，但我会和丈夫一起在海滩度过一周的剩余时间，进行我们几个月前计划的旅行。”
弗吉尼亚共和党花了几个月时间关于格式的争论他们过去常常决定他们的提名人，但最终决定免下车惯例前共和党众议员丹佛·里格曼声称，这一进程被用来剥夺他在国会的席位。
她此前曾暗示，选举是在提前选举结果出来时被该州窃取的，并威胁说，如果选举结果对她不利，她将作为独立候选人参选，她还在一份声明中对计票过程提出了质疑录像发布到她的脸书主页。对于一个自称“穿高跟鞋的特朗普”的人来说，她甚至曾经说过1月6日的国会暴徒的行为是“正当的”，她似乎在跟踪这前总统的领导接受选举结果的时候。
Trump's triumphs extend to GOP rewriting history of Nov. 3 and Jan. 6: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
The ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney might bethe most visiblemanifestation of the Republican Party's embrace of former PresidentDonald Trump's lies about theelection.
Buthis bigger triumphcould be in rewriting the ugly history of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. On the very day Cheney wasremoved from leadership, a staggering array of Republicanscast doubton what members of Congress themselveswitnessed at the Capitoljust four months ago.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said henever saw proofthat rioters wereactually Trump supporters. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., took the opposite approach, arguing that "it was Trump supporterswho lost their livesthat day, not Trump supporters who were taking the lives of others" -- and saying aCapitol Police officerdied that day ofnatural causes.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.,hit a similar themein calling the Capitol Policeshooting of Ashli Babbittas she tried tobreach the House chamberan "execution," as ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Beatrice Peterson report.
Cue Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., whotrumpeted the factthat "the House floor was never breached," and said it looked from video of that day thatprotesters behavedin an "orderly fashion."
"You would actually think it was anormal tourist visit," Clyde said.
Also Wednesday, former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller told lawmakers he"reassessed" his previous judgment-- walking back a statement where he said "it's pretty much definitive" that the attempted insurrectionwouldn't have happened withoutTrump's speech to protesters earlier on Jan. 6.
All of this comes is on top of what's become a mainstream -- though no less false Republican view -- that the election was "rigged" or otherwise stolen.
Preposterously, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said -- shortly after Cheney was ousted from leadership: "I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. That's all over with."
Cheney has said she would make it her mission not to let her partyor the country forgetJan. 6. But many of her colleagues are well along in craftingtheir own Trumpianand patently false narratives of both the election and thesubsequent attack on democracy.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
Some Democrats havesignaled a willingnessto forgo party idealsin favor of making dealswith Republicans toget legislation passed.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.,told ABC News congressional correspondent Rachel Scottthat he is backing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Its scope is far more limited than the sweeping changes proposed in H.R. 1, the For The People Act, which faces staunch Republican opposition. It's a break with party leadership that has pushed H.R. 1 and its reforms, which would be a majoroverhaul of the system.
"(The John Lewis Voting Rights Act) could be done bipartisan to start getting confidence back in our system," said Manchin.
Over the weekend, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburnbacked away from including"qualified immunity," or lowering the standards necessary to prosecute individual officers in civil court, in police reform legislation. The topic has been asticking point in negotiationson the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and most Democrats haveframed the inclusionof qualified immunity in reform as nonnegotiable.
"If we don't get qualified immunity now, then we will come back and try to get it later," said Clyburn on CNN. "But I don't want to see us throw out a good bill because we can't get a perfect bill."
While the likelihood of Democrats completely abandoningbold ideasonhot-button issueslikevoting rightsandpolice reformis unlikely, the wavering of both Manchin and Clyburncould indicate acceptanceof what is attainable for Democrats while they boast slim majorities in both chambers of Congress.
The TIP withMeg Cunningham
After a contentious primary season and anominating conventionfull of confusion, Virginia Republican State Sen. Amanda Chase is not backing down from her assertion that the process was rigged. Chase was one of four front-runners for the Virginia GOP's gubernatorial nomination, but fell short after a drive-through convention over the weekend.
"While we came up short in yesterday's rigged convention that allowed only 53k registered voters to choose our next Governor out of 1.9 million Virginians who voted for President Trump; God is still in control," she wrote in aFacebookpost Wednesday. "While I will have more to say in the days ahead I'm spending the rest of the week at the beach with my hubby for a trip we planned months ago."
The Virginia GOP spent monthsquarreling over the formatthey'd use to determine their nominee, but ultimately settled on thedrive-through convention, a process which former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman asserts was used to oust him from his spot in Congress.
She'd previously suggested that the election was stolen by the state party when early returns were coming in, threatening to run as an independent if the results did not end in her favor, and raised questions about the counting process in avideoposted to her Facebook page. For someone who dubbed herself "Trump in heels," once even saying that the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters were "justified" in their actions,she seems to be followingtheformer president's leadwhen it comes to accepting the election results.
