Anti-Islamic tweets further imperil mainstream New Jersey Republicans
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Republicans find themselves emulating President Donald Trump’s inflammatory anti-Islamic tweets, but that’s posing a problem for the party’s standing in the Garden State.
One of the tweets from the official Twitter account of the Sussex County, N.J., Republican Party called the four congresswomen who Trump had said should “go back” to the “places from which they came,” the “whores of Babble-on.” Another retweeted a series of messages that also targeted the congresswomen. And a third referred to them as the “Jihad Squad.” The account also retweeted a message that called for Americans to “eradicate Islam from every town, city, county and state in our homeland!”
The tweets — for which Sussex County Republican Chairman Jerry Scanlan took responsibility — went largely unnoticed outside of local GOP circles for well over a week. That was until several activists raised the issue at a meeting of the Sussex County Community College board of trustees, on which Scanlan sits.
The controversy went national.
By all accounts, Scanlan’s position as chairman of the Republican Party in deep-red Sussex County appears to be safe; the GOP base in New Jersey is as devoted to the president as its pro-Trump brethren in the reddest of states.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2019/08/03/anti-islamic-tweets-further-imperil-mainstream-new-jersey-republicans-1125754
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