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Fast Forward Illinois Gov. Won’t Call For Vote Against GOP Nazi Candidate
(JTA) — The governor of Illinois has called on a neo-Nazi candidate for a Chicago-area congressional seat to drop out of the race. Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican, denounced Arthur Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party, but declined to endorse the opposing Democratic candidate. His response differed from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz…
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News This Jewish Republican Might Just Flip His New Jersey District – To Blue
Seth Grossman is doing a great Donald Trump impression. But will it get him elected? Grossman, 69, is the Republican candidate for a seat in the U.S. House in a southern New Jersey district. In recent weeks he’s gained national attention for making Trumpian tactics the core of his campaign, decrying “diversity,” mocking Kwanzaa and…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Cites Separation Policy In Resigning From RNC — Also Legal Woes
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, used his resignation letter from the Republican National Committee’s Finance Committee to speak out against his former boss’ family separation policy, sources close to the RNC told ABC News. “As the son of a Polish holocaust survivor, the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart…
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Opinion How The GOP Hacked Orthodox Jews
Last week saw a number of horrifying spectacles. Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, overturned asylum protections for domestic violence and gang violence victims while also quoting the New Testament to justify separating illegal immigrant parents from their children. As if that weren’t bad enough, Corey Stewart, a fervent praiser of white nationalists, won his GOP…
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Fast Forward Google Lists ‘Nazism’ As Ideology Of California Republican Party After Wikipedia Prank
With less than one week to go before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of California’s Republican Party, Vice News reported. On Thursday morning, under “ideology” the search engine listed the words “Nazism”, “Conservatism,” “Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism” and “Green conservatism” when California Republican Party was searched. One white supremacist candidate running…
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Fast Forward California GOP Condemns Another Republican Candidate Over Anti-Semitism
The California Republican Party has distanced itself from a candidate running under its party banner over charges of anti-Semitism for the second time this year. John Fitzgerald is the only Republican running in the heavily-Democratic 11th District, northeast of Oakland. His campaign website includes false claims that 9% of U.S. government officials are dual citizens…
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Fast Forward Why Do Racists Keep Popping Up In Republican Primaries?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — “Republicans seek alternative to ‘Nazi’ candidate after he secures nomination,” one headline reads. “GOP House candidate in Illinois is a 9/11 truther, said Beyonce had ties to the Illuminati,” another says. Both headlines would be alarming enough if they weren’t about two separate congressional races. The emergence of fringe candidates as the…
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Fast Forward Massachusetts GOP Candidate Blames Holocaust On Gay Nazis
A Republican candidate who won enough support at the party’s Massachusetts convention to advance the primary for governor is a pastor who once wrote a book claiming that the Holocaust was caused by a conspiracy of gay men within the Nazi party. Scott Lively, an attorney and pastor who has advocated for anti-LGBT laws around…
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