Surging GOP candidate Kathy Barnette has long history of bigoted statements against gays and Muslims
Source: CNN
Surging Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-gay statements. In many tweets, Barnette also spread the false conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
In one speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate against Muslims and compared rejecting Islam to "... rejecting Hitler's or Stalin's worldviews." In comments on her radio show, she said accepting homosexuality would lead to the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One post she wrote called a transgender person "deformed" and "demonic."
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"Two men sleeping together, two men holding hands, two men caressing, that is not normal," she said on her radio show in July 2015, when a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriage.
On the same show, Barnette argued accepting same-sex marriage would lead to a "slippery slope" of accepting incest and pedophilia, in an episode that was deleted from her SoundCloud page after CNN's KFile reached out to the Barnette campaign for comment.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/kfile-kathy-barnette-bigoted-statements/index.html
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although, increasingly she is representative of the GOP "normal" 
The frenetic moment was embodied by a statement from former President Donald Trump, who urged Republicans to support Mehmet Oz, but also predicted a bright future for Barnette.
by Jonathan Tamari, Julia Terruso, and Ryan W. Briggs
Updated an hour ago
Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary is in chaos. Kathy Barnette’s late surge has turned the nationally watched race into a mad scramble, with former President Donald Trump warning Republicans against nominating her and opponents only now doing basic background research in an attempt to stop her as the clock ticks closer to Tuesday’s primary. Such vetting, usually strategically unspooled over the course of a lengthy campaign, rolled out in frenetic bursts at a range of disparate targets Thursday.
The rush to find anything to puncture Barnette’s story came as she threatened to overtake longtime GOP front-runners Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, who have spent tens of millions of dollars on the campaign but failed to pull away. The haphazard moment was embodied by a Trump statement urging Republicans to support his endorsed candidate, Oz, but also predicted a bright future for Barnette, a conservative commentator and a prominent election denier with a trail of incendiary comments, including some targeting gay and transgender people and Muslims.
“Kathy Barnette will never be able to win the General Election against the Radical Left Democrats,” Trump said. “She has many things in her past which have not been properly explained or vetted,” he added, “but if she is able to do so, she will have a wonderful future in the Republican Party — and I will be behind her all the way.” Barnette, 50, brushed off the attack during a campaign stop Thursday night at the Southampton Fire Department in Bucks County.
“We know that President Trump did not mince words,” she told reporters after the event, though media were largely barred while it took place. “I think that letter was favorable. And I look forward to working with the president.” She agreed with a suggestion that being targeted was confirmation of her rise. “There’s a reason we have the words swamp creatures,” she had told the crowd earlier, according to a recording made by reporters who were briefly inside but forced to leave. ”The long knives are coming out at this point, and I had the best day of my life today.”
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https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/kathy-barnette-oz-mccormick-attack-pa-senate-20220512.html
Makes you wonder, because If MURDER isn't hurting the party of LITERAL murderers 
Republican candidate charged with murdering his wife with a flowerpot wins town primary from a jail cell.
Andrew Wilhoite won a GOP primary for one of the three open seats on a local township board in Indiana.
Wilhoite is currently in jail facing charges for the murder of his wife in March.
Police said Wilhoite confessed to striking her in the head with a flowerpot and dumping her body in a creek.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-candidate-accused-murdering-wife-wins-town-primary-from-jail-2022-5
