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'The gloves have come off': Alabama GOP Senate race has grown ugly since Trump pulled endorsement
May 21, 2022
According to a report from the Associated Press, the race for Alabama Republican Party nomination to replace retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has been thrown into chaos after Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement, and now it has become a 'bitter" fight to get 50 percent of the vote and avoid a runoff in June.
As the report notes, the former president yanked his endorsement from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) who was being rewarded after, "... the conservative firebrand whipped up a crowd of Trump supporters at the Jan. 6, 2021 'Stop the Steal' rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol insurrection," only to pull it in March because Brooks' campaign seemed to be going nowhere with voters.
Since that time, millions have been spent as Brooks battles with top contenders Katie Boyd Britt, the former leader of Business Council of Alabama, and Mike Durant, an aerospace company owner.
According to the report, "Observers say it’s hard to predict whether the nomination will be settled in Tuesday’s primary. The fractured field increases the chances that the race will go to a June 21 runoff, which is required unless one candidate captures more than 50% of Tuesday's vote."
The report states David Mowery, an Alabama-based political consultant claimed there is no clear front-runner which has led to the candidates launching withering attacks on each other.
As Mowrey put it, "It’s anybody's guess as to who’s in first and who’s in second in the runoff," before adding, "The gloves have come off."
The AP report states, "Outside groups have pumped more than $20 million into the race to either support or oppose one of the frontrunners. The Super PACS have been responsible for many of the attack ads in the race. Alabama Patriots PAC spent $4 million to support Durant after receiving money from America’s Project, a Virginia-based PAC associated with Jacob Harriman, a Marine Corps veteran who operates the organization, 'More Perfect Union.' Alabama’s Future, a PAC opposing Brooks, has received $2 million from a Mitch McConnell-aligned PAC."
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Former prosecutor urges Jan 6th committee to haul Ginni Thomas in over Arizona election emails
May 21, 2022
Appearing on MSNBC with host Katie Phang, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said that, some difficulties aside, the Jan 6th committee investigating the Capitol riot should haul Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, into the witness chair to be questioned on her part attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Reacting to a bombshell report that Thomas was in contact with Arizona election officials, with the New York Times reporting the wife of the jurist "twice lobbied the speaker of the Arizona House and another lawmaker to effectively reverse Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s popular-vote victory and deliver the crucial swing state to Donald J. Trump," Vance was asked by the host what should happen next.
"Why is this not news enough, or new news enough, to put her in an interview sea to answer questions?" the MSNBC host pressed.
"It should put Ginni Thomas in an interview seat, probably from the committee, certainly from the Justice Department," Vance replied. "Katie, we live in a world where there is sensitivity surrounding Supreme Court justices and their families. I think it will be difficult, frankly, for people to navigate these issues. It should in fact be simple, because if Ginni Thomas was anyone else with the sort of knowledge that she has displayed on multiple issues, investigators would sit down and have a chat with her, not necessarily that she is a target for investigation."
"They would want to know what she knows," she elaborated. "What is important here is that there's this incredible coincidence that she is out pushing this scheme that we know, ultimately, comes to fruition with those closest to Trump. This scheme to create blank slates of electors -- the ones that are not the choice of the people but instead are patsies for the former president -- people who are supposed to go in and do his work for him."
"And that is a little too close for comfort, that coincidence, so that warrants further investigation," she concluded.
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Trump delivered address to conference ahead of talk show host who called Jews 'stinking excrement': report
May 21, 2022
According to a report from the Guardian, Donald Trump made a remote address to attendees at a CPAC conference in Hungary that was followed by a forum hosted by a notorious talk show host famous for referring to Jews as 'stinking excrement” along with attacking the Black Lives Matter movement.
As the Guardian's Julian Borger and Flora Garamvolgyi report, Trump was introduced to the crowd and appeared on a video screen where he praised recently re-elected prime minister Viktor Orbán, telling the audience, "He is a great leader, a great gentleman, and he just had a very big election result. I was very honored to endorse him."
However, as the report notes, Trump was soon followed by controversial Zsolt Bayer who hosted a talk on gender issues, with the Guardian noting his previous inflammatory comments and writings on his blog.
According to the report, "Bayer, a television talk show host in Hungary, has been widely denounced for his racism. During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, he wrote on his blog: 'Is this the future? Kissing the dirty boots of f*cking [racist epithet] and smiling at them? Being happy about this? Because otherwise they’ll kill you or beat you up?'"
Additionally Bayer has "used the phrase 'stinking excrement' to refer generically to Jews in England, and in 2013 wrote: 'a significant part of the Roma are unfit for coexistence. They are not fit to live among people. These Roma are animals and they behave like animals.'"
According to the report, Matt Schlapp, the force behind CPAC refused to comment on the inclusion of Bayer, but did complain on his website that the "Leftist media launched a coordinated smear campaign” on the event.
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