Wisconsin House candidate Derrick Van Orden, who was in D.C. during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, is facing off against Brad Pfaff on Election Day.
Republican Derrick Van Orden went before voters Tuesday hoping to flip a western Wisconsin congressional seat to the GOP - and win a spot in the House less than two years after he was nearby on the day that insurrectionists violently breached the building.
The two were seeking a seat held by longtime Democratic Rep. Ron Kind before Kind, who narrowly defeated Van Orden in 2020, chose not to seek another term.Wisconsin election updates: GOP Sen. Ron Johnson faces battleground challenge from Mandela Barnes Van Orden said he was in Washington for political meetings when he attended then-President Donald Trump's rally outside the White House shortly before the Capitol attack. A Facebook photo from that day appears to show Van Orden posing with a small handful of protesters on the Capitol grounds, but Van Orden has said the suggestion he was within the restricted area is "inaccurate."
He also criticized Van Orden for saying during a campaign stop in October that "leftists" can't be Christians. Van Orden called during the stop for a return to Judeo-Christian values that he said "this country was based on" and mentioned that he's a member of the Bible Baptist Church, which lists homosexuality alongside bestiality and incest as "sinful perversion." The church also preaches that women should be barred from leadership positions.
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