Barr's first Senate ad borrowed a slogan the Anti-Defamation League catalogs as a hate slogan adopted by white supremacists. A veteran Kentucky political columnist called it the most overtly racist statewide campaign he can remember. Then Barr won the primary.
About 50 Haitians reported to the Cincinnati ICE office on July 31 and were pressured to take $2,600 to self-deport or wear an ankle monitor. All of them refused the money. Two days later a dozen more left with monitors on.
In the same interview she said of the Biden White House, 'I never saw so many fairies in the White House, dancing around.' A year later she was writing federal legislation about transgender people.
A pollster found anti-Muslim sentiment spikes during election cycles, not after terrorist attacks. Within a day of Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Republicans proved her point.
In 2000 the South Carolina Senate voted 36 to 7 to take the Confederate battle flag off the Statehouse dome. Joe Wilson was one of the seven — and he's kept voting that way in Congress ever since.
In December 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed she was Strom Thurmond's daughter. South Carolina's Joe Wilson said he didn't believe her, called it 'unseemly,' and said she should have kept quiet. Days later the Thurmond family confirmed her story.
Rogers attributed a Twitch streamer's 2019 comment to Abdul El-Sayed, who had said the opposite on Fox News. PolitiFact gave it their worst rating and noted the attack evokes anti-Muslim tropes.
Perry read the First Amendment's religious freedom clause aloud, then argued that Muslims are quietly taking over neighborhoods. It's the same thing he's been doing for ten years.
Harrisburg-area Rep. Scott Perry's campaign shared a notorious antisemitic image and captioned it 'Says it all.' He endorsed the white nationalist replacement conspiracy in a briefing on antisemitism. And a Trump aide testified he asked for a pardon.