“Save one or two maybe out here, nobody ― and I think it’s very important to repeat ― nobody actually believes the election was stolen from Donald Trump, but a lot of them are happy to go out and say it was,” Kinzinger told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Blitzer asked Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the nine-member House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, if any of his fellow GOP lawmakers had “actually privately said to you, ‘Good work, I support you.’”.
“Yes, oh yeah, yeah,” responded Kinzinger, who has become one of his party’s fiercest critics of its twice-impeached former president.
“It’s not any of the ones that go on TV and spout the big lie and then say it.
It’s the ones that are staying more quiet that I think appreciate the stand.
“I was a Republican way before Donald Trump, since I was 6 years old.
"I'd be happy to send them a Beta or VHS copy of it so they can sit in their office and do that." »
