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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts)
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:48 AM Aug 2018

After New Jersey candidate said 'diversity is a bunch of crap,' his campaign donations tripled

Need more proof that President Trump's takeover of the Republican Party is done, complete, finito?

Consider the candidacy of Seth Grossman, a Republican running for an open congressional seat in New Jersey against Democrat Jeff Van Drew.

On June 11, the Inquirer and Daily News reported that the former Atlantic County freeholder said that "the whole idea of diversity is a bunch of crap and un-American." He also spoke of a time "when America was great" and "one parent alone earned more than enough money to comfortably support a family."

Grossman's remarks, which the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN followed, didn't immediately cost him the support of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Read more: http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/clout/clout-seth-grossman-congress-election-diversity-tripled-campaign-donations-20180824.html

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