Charlie is playing to his constituency back home. He says what they want to hear, he is what they want him to be.
Which still does not give him an absolute right to sit in our House of Representatives.
I sincerely hope Charlie and Maxine do, as you say, "walk" .... past the Democrats ..... right into a stone wall of 300 new Republican congressmen in January, to get tossed on their ass like they deserve!
That would be a demonstration of Pubbie "ethics"!! ..... And damn good politics.