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1. "Was it something I said?"
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:21 PM
Dec 2019

GOP yanks support for congressional candidate after death threat against Ilhan Omar

A Florida Republican congressional hopeful who apparently called for Rep. Ilhan Omar and other Democrats to be hanged in a fundraising email has been removed from a GOP initiative that supports candidates.

George Buck Jr., who is challenging Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist in Florida's 13th Congressional District, threatens Omar and Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan in an email obtained by CNN that was dated November 26 and includes his signature, though he has denied writing it. The email labels the four minority progressive lawmakers, who call themselves "The Squad," as "anti-American" and associates them with Crist.

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/george-buck-ilhan-omar-threat/index.html

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