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The California Republican Party has disavowed its top-polling candidate to take on Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein this November after it emerged that he has espoused a range of white nationalist views, including calling for a country free from Jews.
Patrick Little, a 33-year-old extremist who last week topped other Republican Senate candidates in a poll of the field, told Newsweek on Monday that he admires Adolf Hitler, and would prefer to see Jewish Americans deported to Israel. He falsely denied that the genocide of Jews took place during World War II and incorrectly suggested that Germany was not an aggressor during that conflict.
Mr. Little has never been an active member of our party. I do not know Mr. Little and I am not familiar with his positions, Matt Fleming, communications director for the California Republican Party told Newsweek. But in the strongest terms possible, we condemn anti-Semitism and any other form of religious bigotry, just as we do with racism, sexism or anything else that can be construed as a hateful point of view.
http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senate-candidate-praise-hitler-907749
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(92,219 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Their base is this guy.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Retrograde
(10,137 posts)I see he didn't bother to get a candidate statement in the state voters' guide. My rule is: you can't be bothered to write a short statement about why you should be elected, I can't be bothered to vote for you.