U.S. Rep. Van Taylor of Texas is ending his reelection campaign and has admitted having an affair.
Taylor apologized for the affair in a statement shared with supporters Wednesday. It didn't mention Joya by name or reference her late husband, the Islamic State group recruiter.
“All I wanted was for Suzanne Harp to just say, ‘Hey, I know your little scandal with Tania Joya. Would you like to resign before we embarrass you?’ But it didn’t happen like that,” Joya told the newspaper. Taylor, a former Marine and Iraq war combat veteran, was considered one of the Texas delegation’s most conservative members when he was elected in 2018. But he has been sharply criticized by the party’s right wing for voting to certify the 2020 election results and supporting a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
“I needed help. I was like, just help me out because that’s the least — the very least — he could do,” she told the newspaper. “For him, it was like, ‘OK, on the condition you don’t tell anyone.’ ... I didn’t want to tell anybody anything.”
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