David Duke, an avowed white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, has run for office many times. White supremacist candidates like Duke tend to be roundly condemned by establishment Republicans. Duke isn’t running for office in 2018, but he’s encouraged by what he sees as a growing number of Republican congressional candidates who appear sympathetic to white supremacist causes or who are openly white supremacists themselves. Two other candidates — one of whom can unambiguously be called a white supremacist, and one who has ties to white supremacist groups but denies being a white supremacist himself — announced runs for public office, but have since dropped out of their respective races. Still more Republican candidates, many of whom are running for re-election, have used white supremacist slogans, invited white supremacists to official government events, or granted interviews to racist or anti-Semitic publications.

Source: Huffington Post February 09, 2018 21:32 UTC