Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack endorses Buttigieg

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Dan Merica
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New endorser Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack introducing Buttigieg: "We can't let (Trump) win the presidency again. And I know for a fact that Pete Buttigieg is going be the person who's going to be able to get us back on track and lead this country forward, beginning next January."
4:55 PM · Jan 12, 2020·Twitter Web App

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1. In Contrast, Iowa Rep. Steve King Has Praised Bernie Sanders

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Steve King Couldn’t Even Complain About Being Called a Racist Without Saying Something Racist

Last year, Iowa congressman Steve King put the cherry on top of a career of loud and public racism in an interview with The New York Times. "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?” he mused at the time, in remarks that cost him his seats on the Judiciary and Agriculture committees and spurred his own party leader Mitch McConnell to suggest that he seek “another line of work.”

So on Friday, King took to the House floor to deliver a rambling speech marking the anniversary of the interview that cost him his committee placements—and, in true Steve King style, continued to make racist comments while doing so.
The term white nationalist, said King, "is a weaponized term created by the left to attack conservatives with. It’s one of their weaponized terms because they wore out the word racist and they needed to make up some new terms to be offended by.”

King has a lengthy history of making racist statements and supporting fervent white nationalists. He infamously said that DREAMers have "calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert, and questioned whether any race “[contributed more] to civilization” than white people. He was even the subject of a fundraising push by the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate organization Identity Evropa.

"They’ve been calling people racist for 20 to 25 years, and they’ve watched as Republicans, especially southern conservative Republicans, curl up away from that kind of accusation and it shuts them down," King said Friday. And even as he whined about being called racist, he made sure to say something decidedly bigoted about Holocaust survivor George Soros.

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2. Yes he did !

Buttigieg Is Endorsed by Iowa Congressman


https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287418451