A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Talking Points Memo asked 28 Florida Republican officials — including the party's nominee for governor and a sitting U.S. senator — whether they would denounce Marshall Rawson, who marched at Charlottesville and whose apparent social media account posted in favor of lynching. Three answered. None denounced him.
Rogers announced 'Students for Mike Rogers.' One member had written 'Send them to North Korea?' in reply to a post about 'these people'; another had told Facebook that the answer to a leaked chat praising Hitler was 'Loyalty is the only political virtue that matters.' His campaign's response was to blame Democrats.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
Bo French, the GOP nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photo of South Asian students at a UT football game and called it a 'problem.' John Cornyn asked whether other Republicans would condemn it. Asked directly, Ken Paxton never said French's name. He attacked James Talarico instead, and got Talarico's words wrong.
In audio from an August 31 campaign stop, Hyde-Smith brought up the 2023 gunfire near her Brookhaven home, said the shooter was 'in prison where he belongs' — then said Scott Colom's supporters could 'get caught up in it.' Colom didn't enter the race until September 2025. Her campaign won't say what she meant.
Ramaswamy said it was legitimate to ask whether federal agents were aboard the 9/11 planes, and admitted he had no evidence. When the quote made news he said it was wrong. CNN's fact-checker reviewed the audio and found the only thing left out was a five-word fragment.
Stephen Woytek ran political operations for Husted's Senate campaign for about a month. His Facebook profile picture showed soldiers from Hitler's personal SS division. It is the second person Husted's campaign has lost in two months over something a reporter found first.
A pastor who is a registered sex offender for life, twice imprisoned for crimes involving children, delivered the opening prayer at an August 28 Whatley campaign stop in New Bern. It is the second convicted child sex offender to become an issue in his campaign this year.
