A 2017 video resurfaced in 2022 showing Bailey minimizing the Holocaust. The ADL and leaders of both parties denounced it. A week later Bailey claimed Jewish community support — and Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois disputed his account.
Seven people were killed at an Independence Day parade and the shooter was still at large. Bailey went live to 111,000 Facebook followers and told Illinois to move on. When the state banned assault weapons, he went to court to strike the ban down.
Pillen turned down federal summer grocery money for Nebraska's low-income kids in December 2023. He reversed two months later — after a petition and after sitting down with children who were living it. The program he blocked delivered nearly $24 million in its first summer.
The New York Times found photos of a 20-year-old Mike Lawler with his face darkened at a college Halloween party. He said sorry, then spent the same night arguing it didn't count. Two NAACP branches and the organization's regional director told him it did.
On the same telephone town hall where Pillen used an ableist slur three times, he waved off Nebraska's $471.5 million budget hole, saying the press 'tries to say that we're broke,' said the state has 'bushel baskets' of money, and promised he won't support any candidate who won't back a six-week abortion ban.
Garbarino spent months as one of five Republicans holding Trump's budget bill hostage over the SALT deduction. When it finally came to a vote at 6:54 a.m., he was asleep in the back.
Charles built his campaign on 18 months running the State Department bureau that trained police in Iraq and Afghanistan. A 2005 audit of that exact tenure called his front office 'structurally dysfunctional.' His answer was to call the reporting fake news.
A right-wing account clipped four words from a 2022 interview. Bobby Charles turned it into roughly 20 posts, a petition demanding a state representative apologize or resign, and eventually a campaign plan to stop the 'Islamification' of Maine.
The First Step Act cleared the Senate 87 to 12. Mike Rounds was one of the 12. Eight years later, South Dakota is breaking ground on a $650 million prison and half the people it releases come back.