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House Republicans abandon Georgia primary candidate after racist videos emerge

Kerry Picket 26 mins ago

A Georgia GOP candidate for the House of Representatives lost support from Republican lawmakers after racist videos of her emerged on the internet, forcing them to throw their backing to her runoff rival.


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A Georgia GOP candidate for the House of Representatives lost support from Republican lawmakers after racist videos of her emerged on the internet, forcing them to throw their backing to her runoff rival.

Marjorie Taylor Green was the first of the top two finishers in the GOP primary for Georgia's 14th Congressional District on June 9 for the seat now held by retiring Republican Rep. Tom Graves. Green drew 41% of the vote, while Republican opponent Dr. John Cowan picked up 19%. Since neither was able to break the 50% threshold necessary to earn the nomination immediately, both will face each other again in a runoff on Aug. 11.

Green was previously favored by Republican House members until videos first found by Politico showed Green talking about Islamic nations being under Sharia law and where men have sex with "little boys, little girls, multiple women" and "marry their sisters" and "their cousins."

Green called the 2018 election of certain freshmen Democratic members “an Islamic invasion of our government” and that “anyone that is a Muslim that believes in Sharia law does not belong in our government.”
In another instance captured on the videos, she compared Black Lives Matter activists to the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members who demonstrated three years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/house-republicans-abandon-georgia-primary-candidate-after-racist-videos-emerge/ar-BB15JoG9?ocid=spartanntp#image=1

EdinVA:
Well, she is not wrong....

libertybele:

--- Quote from: EdinVA on June 19, 2020, 10:09:28 pm ---Well, she is not wrong....

--- End quote ---

...and she's telling the truth.  Somehow truth and integrity are no longer the norm, nor it seems acceptable.

cato potatoe:
This is what qualifies as racism now?  She's probably going to win the primary.  If the GOP gives her seat to a dem, they might as well quit texting for donations.

FeelNoPain:
They're lying. McCarthy, Scalise, Cheney, et al.
They're using her "racism" as a pretext. The real reason they don't want her is because she is a Q Conspiracy Theorist.

The GOP Leadership doesn't want to have to deal with microphones in their face asking if they support their colleague's views about the Democrats being a cabal of Satan-worshiping child slavery supporting pedophiles. Frankly, I'm surprised that the media hasn't held their feet to the fire to take a position on the record about Q, unless I missed it.

GOP Leadership doesn't want to be put in a position of having to directly disavow Q. They obviously know about it. Trump knows about it. Why haven't they addressed it?

Because they don't want to anger the portion of the GOP base that is nuttier than a sh-thouse squirrel. Need them votes.

From the enlightened intellectualism of William F. Buckley to this surreal carnival. LOL.

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