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- Republicans lost George Santos’s seat in a special election on Tuesday.
- That cuts the House GOP’s majority down by one vote.
- Rep. Mike Collins is pointing fingers at the more than 100 Republicans who voted to expel Santos.
Rep. Mike Collins is taking one lesson from Tuesday night’s special election in New York: Republicans shouldn’t have joined with Democrats to expel George Santos from Congress.
“So who still thinks Republicans helping Democrats kick out Santos was a good idea?” the Georgia Republican wrote shortly after former Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi was declared the winner of the special election in New York’s 3rd congressional district.
He also suggested that Republicans who voted to expel Santos in December were to blame for the loss as well.
Collins isn’t alone in lamenting the loss of Santos recently. Other Republicans said as much after the House initially failed to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week, given that they were down a vote.