It is an uphill battle at a time when polls show that voters’ attention is focused elsewhere, including on inflation, rising coronavirus cases and record-high gas prices.
Peter Navarro, then the White House trade advisor, walks past members of the media outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
The select committee investigating the attack, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, says it has approached its work in a sober, apolitical manner and will present its findings as such. But it is clear that the hearings, coming five months before midterm elections in which Democrats are bracing for big losses, carry high political stakes.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said on Twitter that the hearings would “fully expose the cult’s extreme effort to overthrow the U.S. government.” Norman L. Eisen, who was hired by the Judiciary Committee to serve as special counsel during the first Trump impeachment, said Democrats had learned from some of their successes and misfires during those hearings, but still faced challenges.
“Jan. 6 is very much salient and highly negative to these likely midterm voters,” Shenker-Osorio told activists on a recent call promoting the hearings. As it tries to deliver the equivalent of the Watergate hearings for the streaming era, the committee has brought on the former president of ABC News, James Goldston, a move reported earlier by Axios, to help fit the hearings into six tight episodes, running between 90 minutes and 2.5 hours.
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