Disgraced Long Island Rep. George Santos is reportedly set on running for reelection in 2024 — at the same time as outraged locals marched on his district office Wednesday again demanding his ouster over his lies.
Fellow Latest York Rep. Richie Torres confirmed reports that “Santos is telling advisors that he wishes to serve a 2nd term, despite previously promising that he wouldn’t run for reelection.”
“Do you’re thinking that a pathological liar & lawbreaker like George Santos has any business being a lawmaker for even 1 term, let alone 2?”
Torres also linked to a CNN article through which multiple Republican sources said Santos plans to stay it out and seek reelection even when indicted on criminal charges over his campaign funds.
Santos, 34, looked as if it would signal as much in a tweet Tuesday, changing his tune from when he previously said he’d resign if enough of his voters called for it.
“Let me be very clear, I’m not leaving, I’m not hiding and I’m NOT backing down,” he wrote.
“I’ll proceed to work for #NY03 and no amount of Twitter trolling will stop me. I’m looking forward to getting what must be done, DONE!”
On Wednesday, dozens of angered locals under the group “Concerned Residents of NY-03” marched — again — on his office, handing in a petition calling on him to resign.
Carrying an enormous banner reading “George Santos lied to us,” the protesters marched on his Douglaston district office chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Santos has got to go.”
Nonetheless, Santos refused to consult with them in person outside his office, which still has the name of Santos’ Democratic predecessor Tom Suozzi on the awning.
“We’d like him gone,” group organizer Jody Kass told CBS News Latest York later Wednesday.
“We desired to make sure that that he knew that we weren’t going away
we desired to make sure that there was no normalization of this imposter being a congressman.”
Kass noted that Santos previously refused to talk to the group of constituents when around 50 of them spent around 10 hours on the round trip to Washington, DC to protest at his office within the Capitol.
“George Santos is a grifter — and he has grifted his way right into a job that now pays him $174,000,” she said, outraged that “he’s threatening to run again.”
Based on CNN, Santos is adamant that he will likely be cleared of all wrongdoing in quite a few probes into his funds and lies.
He has repeatedly dismissed the ever-expanding list of lies, claiming it’s routine in politics while maintaining he’s “lived an honest life.”
“He has apparently forgiven himself,” Kass told CBS, but “the constituents don’t forgive him — we are going to never forgive him. No one trusts him.”
Former Long Island Rep. Peter King told CNN that “the longer [Santos] stays in there, the more serious that is for Republicans on Long Island.”
“For the great of the country and for the Republican Party, he’s got to go as quickly as possible,” King told the network, noting the way it’s unlikely Santos will “go on his own.”
King doesn’t rate his possibilities in 2024 after such a mountain of scandal.
“If he runs again, he’ll get destroyed,” he predicted.
