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Outrage as MAGA lawmaker openly admits plot to block seating of Dem candidate: 'Shameful’
What happened
RawStory reports that Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, confirmed Sunday that he was “100%” planning to try to block Democratic nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier from taking her House seat in January if she wins New York’s 13th Congressional District in November.
According to the New York Post reporting cited by RawStory, Burchett pointed to a since-deleted online joke in which Avila Chevalier referred to using an American flag as a napkin. He characterized that post as “disavowing” the Constitution. The article does not establish what procedure Burchett intends to use…
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