Steve King re-elected in Iowa House race despite latest controversy
Source: CNN
By Alex Rogers,
(CNN)Rep. Steve King won a ninth term to Congress in his toughest campaign yet, defeating a strong challenge from J.D. Scholten, despite criticism from his own Republican colleagues over his comments this year criticizing diversity in the United States, as well as George Soros, a Jewish billionaire and Democratic donor.
With 99% of precincts reporting, CNN projected King won the deeply conservative district with 50.6% of the vote to 46.8% for his Democratic challenger JD Scholten. In 2016, King cruised to victory with over 61% of the vote.
Last month, The Washington Post reported that King questioned the value of diversity in an interview with Unzensuriert, "a publication associated with Austria's Freedom Party, which was founded by a former Nazi SS officer and is now led by Heinz-Christian Strache, who was active in neo-Nazi circles as a youth." The Post noted that, "the party has distanced itself from those connections" but "recently embraced a hard-line anti-immigration stance while seeking ties with other far-right parties and leaders abroad."
In the interview, King said, "diversity is not a strength" and asked, "what does it bring that we don't have that is worth the price?"
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/steve-king-re-election-iowa-house-race/index.html
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Go figure
IronLionZion
(45,441 posts)It's happened before with outrageous assholes like Jim Traficant
gademocrat7
(10,657 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Vinca
(50,270 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)and so many other people/places
paleotn
(17,912 posts)are racist, neo-nazis sympathizers. There. I said it.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)These assholes that vote for the scum suckers like King, Desuckass and Prick scott, deserve whatever bad shit comes their way. I have no sympathy for these fuckers when cancer or some other disease strikes them and they have no way to pay for treatment that could save them. Guess they could always call Michelle Bachman and she could pray for them though, Lets see how that works out.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)don't watch the news and that all they see is that magical "R" next to some snake oil salesman's name and they automatically pick him.
They don't care if king is a klansman, racist, bigot, liar, and every other derogatory adjective I can think of, all they see is that R.
They never watch news, just fox.
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)Racist Republicans Re-elect Republican Racist.