NM GOP candidate blasted for calling somebody 'unworthy a**hole'

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BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW
ON 9/14/19 AT 11:18 AM EDT

A New Mexico Republican congressional candidate has been forced to defend 2015 posts which blasted .. Trump as an "a**hole unworthy of the office" ...

Claire Chase, who is running to defeat Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District, was outed as a "Never Trump" Republican Party member during the 2016 presidential election. Right-wing website Breitbart News first reported on Chase's anti-Trump past despite her current candidacy portraying herself as an ardent supporter of the Trump administration. Facebook posts dating back to 2015 see her ridiculing Trump as a Vietnam War draft-dodger and threatening to vote for .. Gary Johnson should Trump win the GOP primary.

A representative for Chase's U.S. House campaign now insists that she voted for Trump in November 2016 despite ridiculing him for at least two years. Her post-election comments continued to deride Donald Trump on a personal level -- but now she has "come around" ...

https://www.newsweek.com/claire-chase-anti-trump-posts-1459270

"He's an unworthy a**hole, but that's really why I support him!"

[Cirque du So-What]

1. She had it right the first time

Too bad she capitulated to current RW groupthink. Political expediency wins over doing what's right.