‘Former New York Representative George Santos plans to run for Congress again’, he announced on Thursday night.
Santos said in a post on X, ‘I plan to challenge Republican Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District, which includes eastern Long Island’.
“I look forward to debating him on the issues and his weak record as a Republican. The fight for our majority is imperative for the survival of the country,” he wrote.
‘To raise the standard in Congress and to hold a pathological liar who stole an election accountable, I led the charge to expel George Santos. If finishing the job requires beating him in a primary, count me in’, responded LaLota in a statement.
Santos previously represented the state’s Third Congressional District. He was expelled from Congress in December in the wake of a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee that found substantial evidence that he violated federal law and used campaign money for personal expenses.
House lawmakers voted 311 to 114 in favour of his expulsion, making Santos the sixth House member in the nation’s history to be expelled. He had survived two previous calls for his removal — the first after he was indicated by the Justice Department in May 2023, the second in October 2023 after a superseding indictment.
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