Will County Gazette

After a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol during a joint session by the House and the Senate to count the Electoral College votes, Columnist Ted Slowik says it was obvious that the country had reached a turning point.

Slowik spoke with George Pearson, the Will County Republican Party chair, about the incident.  

“What else do you expect when you keep cheating people out of their liberties?” Pearson said in the Chicago Tribune piece.

Pearson said he didn’t see any difference between this riot and the riot that occurred in Washington over the summer. He also said that the House floor belongs to Americans and that they no longer feel that their government is representing them.

Pearson said he supported President Donald Trump and he wasn’t happy with U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Channahon) and others’ decision to criticize the president while he attempted to object to the certification of the vote.

Pearson felt that Republicans like Kinzinger needed to be branded as traitors and “ran out of the party.” He also said the country needed a change after all that has occurred today.

“If we don’t have every single one of these establishment clowns resign and get a new seat of actual people who work for a living representing us, you’ll see a lot more civil unrest,” he told the news media.

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he didn’t agree with the contesting of the vote shortly before the U.S. Capitol attack.

“If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told colleagues earlier today. “Every four years would be a scramble for power, at any cost.”

The certification of the votes of the Electoral College is typically only a ceremonial event, Slowik wrote. The election results had President-elect Joe Biden finishing with 306 electoral votes and Trump finishing with 232.