“Fraud”: Santos faces calls by US legislators, New Yorkers to resign after false claims

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U.S. Representative George Santos said on Thursday he would vacate his seat only if he loses the next election, clarifying an earlier statement that he would resign if “142 people” asked him to because of a string of false claims he made about his work and personal background.

His initial remark about potentially bowing out came as he hurriedly exited his Capitol Hill office and entered an elevator on Thursday. “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I will resign,” he said. The first-term Republican congressman later clarified that he would only leave office if the 142,000 people who elected him in November, vote him out in the next election in 2024.

On Wednesday, more than a dozen Republican officials, many of them from Santos’ New York City-area district, demanded the newly elected congressman’s resignation. By Thursday, six of his fellow Republican representatives from New York had also joined the calls for him to resign.

“You don’t get to run for Congress and hide from the people who voted for you. You don’t get away with being the biggest fraud in modern American political history. And we will work day and night to hold you accountable,” Joshua Lafazan, who represents Nassau County in the 18th district, said at a rally on Friday.

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