Elaine Luria, my congresswoman (VA-02), is on the Committee investigating the January 6th attack. She was interviewed by Chris Hayes on MSNBC. The video and the excerpts I show below are from bluevirginia: bluevirginia.us/…
(I don’t know how to embed a video, but you can see it there).
She was a physics/history double major in Annapolis, served for 20 years as a Surface Warfare Operator and a nuclear engineer, and then returned to Virginia Beach/Norfolk to run a small business. She ran for Congress in 2018, beating Scott Taylor by 3 points and in 2020 beat him by 6.
However, her district has become redder (from R+1 to R+3) and is roughly seven points redder than Virginia as a whole. It is expected to be very close. Some list it as toss-up, some as “tilt R”. If you can help her out, go to elaineforcongress.com
And if someone can embed the video in a comment, please do so.
- On whether the insurrection on 1/6/21 was something “ancillary” or “central” to the plot to overturn the 2020 election, Rep. Luria said, “I think it is truly central…I mean, there was a plan, the Eastman memo, there’s the receipts; you literally have these certificates sent from the seven states, you have voice mails sent and left by Trump campaign staffers. You have all of this evidence – Giuliani, you know, in a recording, saying this is the plan, this is how it’s going to work. And there was immense pressure…by the former president on the former Vice President Pence and that was publicly um put on the the Vice President…This is a coordinated effort…There’s no possible coincidence that each of these electors from the seven states…could have had these nearly identical certificates that they sent to Washington. The dots are just clearly connecting here.“
- “The question is…to what level were these people conspiring or were they being led by another group of people who were selling them a false story that they were doing something legitimate in order to support what was being sold as a legitimate process. But it’s clearly not. I mean, as you outlined in your intro, you know this was a plan, it was a plan for a coup and it’s very clear…All the evidence that we’re continuing to gather just corroborates what was very clearly put out in the public even well before January 6.“