Republican wins upset in deep-blue seat after Muslim Democrat busted for racist tweets
'Back in those days, a lot of kids would use that word both with kids of African American origin and people of any brown ethnicity'
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Anthony Iafrate, Daily Caller News Foundation
March 11, 2026
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet guests along the rope line at the Congressional Picnic, Thursday, June 11, 2025, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)
A Republican won a deep-blue Northern Virginia county-level seat in a major upset Tuesday after revelations that her Democratic opponent made racist social media posts more than 10 years ago.
Republican Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat defeating Democratic nominee Muhammed Sufiyan Casim, 36, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, who in the 2010s made a series of online posts containing racist, misogynist and antisemitic content, Potomac Local News reported. Casim, who was in his 20s when he posted the content, apologized for the posts in an interview with the Prince William Times — saying he had used the N-word "foolishly" and suggested he had copied the behavior of "kids" of "brown ethnicity" at the time.
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"I wasn't realizing the cultural weight and the context, so I used that word foolishly, but not in a derogatory or prejudicial way," the Democrat told the outlet, adding that he used the racial slur to refer to his black friend. "Back in those days, a lot of kids would use that word both with kids of African American origin and people of any brown ethnicity."
https://www.wnd.com/2026/03/republican-wins-upset-deep-blue-seat-after-muslim/
