Last week, Republicans in New Hampshire picked a “transsexual Satanist anarchist” whose campaign slogan was “F*ck the Police” to be their nominee in a local sheriff’s race.
This week, Republicans in Delaware selected an admitted ex-drug-runner and racist flat-Earther to be their nominee in the race for U.S. Senate.
Lauren Witzke is a former field organizer for the Trump campaign. This week, she won her primary with 56.9% of the vote.
Witzke campaigned on a platform that included a 10-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States, forcing rape victims to have babies, and diverting welfare payments to “married couples with three or more children” as a sort of reward for procreating in a Biblical way. (Witzke’s plan specifically states that funds would only go to couples who “have children together,” effectively cutting out LGBTQ couples.)
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In short, she’s awful.
Now, a new exposé published by The Daily Beast finds that she’s even more awful than people first believed. Because, as it turns out, Witzke has a history of elevating QAnon conspiracy theorists and making racist remarks online.
The Daily Beast reports:
With her victory still just hours old, the newest Republican Senate nominee publicly thanked a white nationalist leader who marched in the “Unite the Right” rally and has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust…
…Witzke has posted racist messages of her own on social media, calling Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “third world” and “tards.” Witzke has also more or less endorsed the idea of Trump becoming a lifelong king of the United States, and said she believes that the earth is flat.
She also has quite the rap sheet.
The Daily Beast reports:
In August 2017 Witzke was arrested in Tennessee on a series of charges. The newspaper noted that a woman named Lauren Witzke had been arrested on violating both heroin and methamphetamine laws, charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and introduction of contraband into a penal facility.
Slate adds that Witzke first became addicted to drugs after suffering a bout of depression while working for a pharmaceutical company. She started taking painkillers, got addicted, and eventually switched the heroin.
At some point she became wrapped up with drug cartels.
Speaking to WDEL radio in May, Witzke said: “I ended up in a situation that I never thought I’d find myself in: I was running drugs, actually, for the Mexican cartels.”
After seeing the light, Witzke got clean and decided she needed to run for office to fight against these dangerous criminals who “sell these drugs to American children” and will “not think twice if it will kill them.”
Witzke will face off against incumbent Democrat and longtime LGBTQ ally Sen. Chris Coons in November’s election.
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jayceecook
Queerty is once again late to the party. She’s been in the MSM for weeks if not months. And the GOP didn’t nominate her. The party actually backed her opponent in the primary because they even found her too crazy. Apparently the voters in NH are just as f****d up as her.
Cam
She ran and won as a Republican.
jayceecook
@CamCam but the GOP aka the National Republican Party did not endorse her during the primary. They openly endorsed her opponent. The other republican. They did not want her affliated with the GOP. Unfortunately as it has been shown multiple times over the years, anybody can run under any party as long as they meet the requirements to get on the ballot. That however does not mean the national party they are running under endorses them or even considers them a member of their “team”. So now like the transexual libertarian, the GOP is stuck with her because *the voters* chose her. And don’t assume all the people who voted for her were Republicans. Dems will often switch parties during a primary to get either a looney like this lady on the ticket or to try and take votes away from the candidate in the lead who would be detrimental to the local, state or federal office, like DT.
Kangol2
Isn’t Witzke running in Delaware, not New Hampshire? I think the Delaware primary was this past Tuesday. She’s running against a relatively popular Democrat, Chris Coons, so I think it’s going to be an uphill battle for her.
Creamsicle
@jayceecook
LOL. The best defense of the GOP you can muster is, “she wasn’t a smoky backroom appointee, she was chosen by the people.”
Face it, Republicanism is over. If there are sound minds left in the party, they need to jump ship, form a new party, and pray that they don’t become victims of the two-party thinking they themselves perpetuated and benefited from for decades.
Cam
@jayceecook
The Republican Party voters chose her. But by all means, keep on defending Republicans. I said you were a GOP troll account ages ago, and it’s fine with me that you keep proving me right.
Cam
So she’s a typical Republican. A criminal who’s a racist.
Creamsicle
If she loses the general election, then Trumo can make her a senior policy advisor during his lame duck session. She’ll fit right in among the other racist criminals he’s had theoughout hus presidency.
Mack
Seems to me the “Republican’s family values” have gone down the toilet since they nominated Donald Trump. Just another example, one of many.
WSnyder
GOPers, make up your damn minds. You want to ‘Lock Her Up’ for Democrat nominees accused of non-criminal activity and then nominate ‘She Was Locked Up’ to run as a GOP Senate candidate.
WTF?
wiredpup
If I call her a POS flaming dumpster fire, does that make me “transphobic”?
Liquid Silver
Many, many years ago, my mother jokingly said she’d slap me into next year.
I’m going to call her and ask if that offer is still open, because I’ve seriously had it with 2020.
jayceecook
With 4 months left you were better off asking back in February or March. Might as well stay in the handbasket with the rest of us till it reaches hell.
Heywood Jablowme
Delaware Republicans like their nominees to be crazy. Look up Christine O’Donnell who ran against Coon in 2010. She was into witchcraft, or maybe not: “I’m not a witch” she said in a TV ad. That time, too, the party establishment backed a “normal” candidate (Mike Castle, a former governor and popular congressman) but the party crazies demanded their crazy candidate, dammit!
BaltoSteve
She looks the part of a GOP candidate, the very picture of Nordic Perfection.
Invader7
Her heroin / meth eyes expose her for the UNBALANCED deranged sociopath she truly is. The GOP will take anybody. Anybody…