Robert Regan.Photo: JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty
When one panelist at the March panel said it was “too late” to continue challenging the election results, Regan responded: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’ "
That statement sparkedimmediate blowback, even from within Regan’s own party.
Williams lost his race to Democrat Ann Richards.
TheWashington Postreported last monththat Regan said elsewhere in same discussion at last month’s event that, if elected, he would work to decertify the results of the 2020 election in Michigan (thePostnoted that a state can’t decertify an election, under both state and federal law).
Equating the election with a stolen car or jewelry, Regan said, “We do want to decertify this election and we do want it returned to the rightful owner … You decertify and you give it to the rightful owner, and that’s Donald Trump, and that’s what I’m pushing for and we’re going full-bore on that.”
ThePostalso noted that one of Regan’s own daughters had urged Michigan residents not to vote for him during his unsuccessful 2020 campaign to be a state representative.
“If you’re in Michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. Tell everyone,” Stephanie Regan posted on Twitter at the time.
In a statement to his campaign website, Regan — who did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Friday — said that his rape comment had been “intentionally truncated,” doubling down on the initial remark he had made.
“Here are my exact words: ‘That’s kind of like — I have three daughters, and I tell my daughters if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it. That is not how we roll. That is not how I won this election. We go right at it.’ "
He continued: “My message was intentionally truncated to make it look like I said one thing, when in fact, I was saying the exact opposite. We don’t take it laying down, nothing is inevitable, even in the face of insurmountable odds, we fight, always we fight. That is part of our fabric as American citizens when we defeated world superpower Great Britain 250 years ago.”
source: people.com
