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Mark Z. Barabak: The Jan. 6 hearings aren’t playing the way Democrats hope in one California swing district

Ceres Democrat Amador Martinez says it’ s every citizen’ s duty to follow the hearings.

CERES, Calif. — Even before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection called a single witness, Amador Martinez had seen enough.

"It's on him," he said of former President Donald Trump, who capped his efforts to overturn the 2020 election by siccing an angry and vengeful mob on the Capitol. "One hundred and ten percent."

Melody Douglas also made up her mind long before the first hearing was gaveled open in TV's prime time.

"It's a sham," she said of the committee and its work. "It's just an effort to make Trump look bad. Hopefully, he's holding his head high."

The Select Committee to.

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