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The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump gloats over retirement of Republican who attacked election lie

Ken Buck, 64, is a stringent conservative who has nonetheless emerged as a Trump critic.
Ken Buck, 64, is a stringent conservative who has nonetheless emerged as a Trump critic. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Donald Trump welcomed the news that Ken Buck, a prominent conservative who criticized his party for questioning the validity of Joe Biden’s election win, will quit Congress at the next election, crowing: “Good news for the country!”

Buck, from Colorado, announced his retirement on MSNBC on Wednesday and said he was “disappointed that the Republican party continues to rely on this lie that the 2020 election was stolen and rely on the January 6 narrative and political prisoners from January 6 and other things”.

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