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As a result, it rubbed Grenell the wrong way on Monday when Lauren Witzke, an unsuccessful GOP nominee for Senate in the 2020 election, attacked a transgender woman who attended the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference as "mentally ill" and "demonic" and comparing acceptance of transgender rights to castrating children, leading to a public argument on Twitter.
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Witzke, who ran for the same Delaware Senate seat that was once held by President Joe Biden, has repeatedly promoted
<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-lauren-witzke-delaware-qanon-flat-earth-20200917-w6xeptfn65bqrj4tzv75oygnoa-story.html" target="_blank">QAnon conspiracy theories</a>, described herself as a "<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-lauren-witzke-delaware-qanon-flat-earth-20200917-w6xeptfn65bqrj4tzv75oygnoa-story.html" target="_blank">flat earther</a>," has claimed that God "<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/16/republican-who-promoted-qanon-wins-delaware-senate-primary-despite-opposition-from-gop/" target="_blank">anointed</a>" Trump, and claims she was once a drug-runner for "<a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/09/16/republican-who-promoted-qanon-wins-delaware-senate-primary-despite-opposition-from-gop/" target="_blank">Mexican cartels</a>."
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