{"id":618093,"date":"2024-04-24T05:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/disgraced-former-rep-george-santos-ends-2024-reelection-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T02:26:32","slug":"disgraced-former-rep-george-santos-ends-2024-reelection-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disgraced-former-rep-george-santos-ends-2024-reelection-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"#Disgraced former Rep. George Santos ends 2024 reelection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"73431420007\" title=\"George Santos suspends congressional bid\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/videoelephant\/thumbnails\/73431420007.jpg\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/videoelephant\/thumbnails\/73431420007.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">George Santos suspends congressional bid<\/p>\n<p>Former Long Island congressman George Santos announced he is withdrawing his independent congressional bid.<\/p>\n<p>Fox &#8211; 5 NY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Disgraced former Rep. George Santos R-N.Y., is dropping his comeback bid less than two months after announcing he was running for reelection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>Santos was expelled from the House by his colleagues last year as he faces sweeping federal charges, including lying to the Federal Election Commission, identity theft, money laundering, wire fraud and theft of public funds. He filed for reelection in March to run against his fellow New York Republican, Rep. Nick LaLota, in the state\u2019s first congressional district as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>But the former lawmaker, who has become known for his extravagant lies, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSantosNY\/status\/1782874597106303425\">said in a post on X, formerly Twitter,<\/a> on Tuesday that he did not want to \u201csplit the ticket and be responsible for handing the House to (Democrats).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have meet (sic) with leaders and with constituents and I have made the decision to hang it up here and stop perusing (sic) this race,\u201d Santos said, though he added his decision to stay out of the House race is only for \u201cTHIS YEAR!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only goodbye for now, I\u2019ll be back,\u201d Santos teased.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/04\/23\/USAT\/73430577007-gty-2066961629.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/04\/23\/USAT\/73430577007-gty-2066961629.jpg?crop=5331,3998,x334,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/04\/23\/USAT\/73430577007-gty-2066961629.jpg?crop=2999,3998,x1500,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/04\/23\/USAT\/73430577007-gty-2066961629.jpg?crop=5999,3376,x0,y311 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Win McNamee, Getty Images\" caption=\"Former U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., attends U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. This is Biden\u2019s last State of the Union address before the general election this coming November.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"><\/media-image><\/p>\n<p>Santos drew bipartisan condemnation from lawmakers last year for fabrications about his biography on the campaign trail, which he admitted to shortly after being sworn in to Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"11054198002\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"><\/media-gallery-promo><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers\u2019 patience with Santos eventually ran out when the House Ethics Committee released a scathing report last year that found substantial evidence Santos misused campaign funds for his own personal benefit, including spending donations on OnlyFans, Sephora and other luxury purchases.<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"><\/cta-atoms-container-inline><\/p>\n<p>Santos&#8217; trial on his litany of federal charges is expected to begin in September.<\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2024-04-23 21:49:19 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2024-04-24 02:26:32 +0000 UTC\"><\/lit-timestamp><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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George Santos R-N.Y., is dropping his comeback bid less than two months after announcing he was running for reelection.\u00a0 Santos was expelled from the House by his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/04\/23\/USAT\/73430577007-gty-2066961629.jpg?auto=webp&crop=5999,3376,x0,y311&format=pjpg&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}