Uh-oh. Yet another handpicked GOP Senate candidate is a hot mess

[Demovictory9]

Preferred pick to run against Kobuchar


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/24/2242537/-Uh-oh-Yet-another-handpicked-GOP-Senate-candidate-is-a-hot-mess

The latest gobsmacking GOP vetting failure involves Royce White, the Minnesota Republican Party’s official endorsee for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Amy Klobuchar. White was handpicked by notorious conservative chaos agent/mulch golem Steve Bannon, so red flags should have been flying from the outset. But it’s what The Daily Beast recently uncovered about White’s 2022 House campaign that should really give voters pause.

The Daily Beast reviewed White’s 2022 primary campaign reports and found numerous items that boggled legal experts. The unusual expenses include a total of more than $100,000 in mysterious wire transfers and checks reported as paid to the campaign; hefty tabs at spicy nightspots; getaways at posh hotels in at least seven states; thousands of dollars in limousine services; unexplained cash withdrawals; eye-popping purchases from electronics, sporting goods, clothing, and musical instrument retailers; and the DribbleUp smart basketball training app that White himself admitted might be personal use.

Of course, while White isn’t the nominee yet, he appears to have captured the black, bloodless heart of today’s funhouse mirror GOP. According to The Daily Beast, White is a “right-wing Steve Bannon protege” who’s been criticized for making antisemitic remarks, advancing conspiracy theories, and—with Walker-like aplomb—somehow managing to be against abortion while standing accused of paying women to terminate their pregnancies.

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And speaking of women, did you know they’ve become far too “mouthy” these days? If not, you’re clearly not plugged into the current right-wing zeitgeist.

As Michelle Goldberg wrote in The New York Times:

By 2023, White was not just appearing on [Alex] Jones’s show but also guest-hosting it. Bannon, Trump’s first chief strategist, had become a mentor to him, delighting in his unvarnished machismo. “Women have become too mouthy,” White said on Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “As the Black man in the room, I’ll say that.” Elsewhere, White denounced the “Jewish lobby” and the “Jewish elite” and called Israel “the linchpin of the new world order.” He described the L.G.B.T.Q. movement as “Luciferian” and wrote that it’s “the brainchild of radical feminists and their cucked men.” In 2020 he wrote in Tulsi Gabbard, then a Democratic congresswoman, for president, but is now fully behind Trump.

[Ocelot II]

1. Klobuchar will pants him, stuff in his locker and eat his lunch.

She's popular here and would beat whoever they picked, but Royce White is yet another example of the GOP going out of its way to turn over every rock in the state in order to find the worst possible candidate. White has repeatedly expressed anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, and sexist attitudes, and has often called women c***s. He will crash and burn on takeoff.

[Demovictory9]

6. Its still annoying that this mysogynist gets to put senate candidate on his resumee

[JustAnotherGen]

2. He's a hot mess

[Initech]

3. Anyone who voluntarily hangs out with Steve Bannon at this point...

Should automatically be flagged as a national security risk. Fuck Steve Bannon.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Check that man for COOTIES and other parasites.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Fuck. To think this guy was once lauded

by The Nation's sportswriter Dave Zirin back in 2013 for coming upfront about mental health issues in professional sports:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240524092420/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nba-player-royce-white-mental-health-revolutionary/

. . .and as a civil rights figure in 2020 during the protests over George Floyd's murder

Looks like he's really gone off his rocker since then.

What a fucking pitiful shame.