How did people bring themselves to vote for him? As for the FBI (mentioned above) they may have helped him. George Santos was a Republican in Long Island who won a close election, and was immediately a target and getting criticism for embellishing his resume. He was later convicted of a minor crime, after they dug and dug as hard as they could into his past, and blasted it all over the news for months. Yet this clown and creep Alite gets elected to office.