NYT’s Coaston: Until Trump Stops Talking About Jan. 6th, the GOP Will Keep Getting ‘in Trouble’

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COASTON: "You heard Matt Gaetz condemning Mike Pence for having strong statements about how he could not actually overturn the election. And so I think that this is a case in which, if Donald Trump were a different version of Donald Trump, sure, maybe they could move on from this. But, for Donald Trump, the idea that he lost the 2020 election, which he did, is the biggest slap in the face imaginable. And so I think that you're going to see increasingly, in this year's elections and in 2024, that whether or not you believe the big lie is going to be a litmus test. And I think that we're going to see that moving forward. And it's interesting, people keep saying, like, 'politicizing January 6th.' January 6th was a political event. The point of January 6th was that someone who lost an election believed he didn't lose an election. That's a political statement. And so, I think that you're seeing Republicans wishing that other Republicans would stop talking about this. But until Donald Trump does, they're in trouble."