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In Biden's Home State, Republican Centrism Gives Way to the Fringe - The New York Times - 1 views

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Delaware politics Trump QAnon Witzke Senate Coons

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    • hannahcarter11
      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      So not only is she prejudiced, but her entire team is prejudiced too! And seen here, it is clear that Pres. Trump's statement about the Proud Boys has caused a resurgence nationwide. Delaware is not immune to white supremacy.
    • hannahcarter11
      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      Earlier in the summer, I went to a BLM protest that she led. It is clear that she has been on the frontlines of this fight since the beginning.
  • Across the street, Keandra McDole, sister of a wheelchair-bound Black man who was killed in 2015 by the Delaware police, chanted “Lauren Witzke’s got to go,”
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  • It’s sad that voters feel like they only have a choice between democratic socialism and white supremacy.
  • Ms. Witzke’s ascent in Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s home state may be the nadir of the Delaware Republican Party’s rapid swerve from patrician moderation to the far-right fringe
  • Republicans running statewide are facing a choice: Appeal to the vocal extreme or find some way to assemble a more centrist coalition that could actually elect them.
  • That was an easy case to make not long ago in tiny Delaware, population 974,000, where “the Delaware way” was a model of centrist political accommodation.
  • The F.B.I. has warned that QAnon poses a potential domestic terrorism threat.
    • hannahcarter11
      hannahcarter11 on 06 Oct 20
       
      How in the world could all of those charges be dropped?
  • “People are so tired of George Bush-era politics. Nationalist populism is the future,” Ms. Witzke said. “America First is the future. And that is what I am.”
  • The Republican Party has to be open-minded about the people who live in this country and get back on some sort of track that makes sense to the average voter,
  • You can’t just have ideological beliefs that don’t appeal to a majority of people in a state — or the country.
  • Ms. Witzke’s message to moderates, she said: “It’s me or Antifa.”
  • On Wednesday, a day after Mr. Trump’s Proud Boys remarks during the first presidential debate, Ms. Witzke took to Twitter to create more headaches for her party. “The Proud Boys showed up to one of my rallies to provide free security for me when #BLM and ANTIFA were protesting my candidacy,” she wrote, neglecting to mention that the Proud Boys outnumbered the McDole family protesters at the event.
  • “We are sick and tired of pandering and people electing government officials who will cave to the mob,”
  • Gathered with her in the parking lot of the Republican Party headquarters here was a self-appointed security guard with a gun on his hip, a political adviser whose losing clients include candidates accused of racism and anti-Semitism, and a smattering of Proud Boys, the far-right brawlers whom President Trump told to “stand back and stand by.”
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