The incoming state legislator was chosen to fill a seat left vacant in early October when a former Gaston County lawmaker died.
An incoming North Carolina state lawmaker told a Raleigh-based television news station on Friday that he was outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, the day a protest against the certification of the 2020 election results in Washington, D.C. turned violent.
"I had absolutely zero involvement in the rioting and categorically condemn the storming of our Capitol building that day," the station reported Loftis told them in a text message exchange. An incoming North Carolina state lawmaker told a local media outlet on Friday that he was outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6. Above, protesters gather at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.Gaston County GOP Chairman Jonathan Fletcher noted it is"important that we have a principled Conservative standing up for us" in a party press release and said of Loftis,"we know that he is ready to get to work immediately.
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