“I believe it’s time we start talking about the reality of terrorism linked to Black radicals”, Duke tweeted July 17 after the news broke about the police shootings in Baton Rouge.
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Duke vowed to defend the “rights and heritage of European Americans”, touting his opposition to affirmative action and saying that immigration must be stopped because it is, in his view, a “cleansing of the people whose forefathers created America”.
“Thousands of special interest groups stand up for African-Americans, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, etc.”, he said in a YouTube video.
Duke said that “European-Americans” need a politician to fight for their interests and that white people are threatened in the United States.
But that’s not all. Oh, and the immigrants!
Duke said the U.S. needs to stop the mass of immigration as well as the “ethnic cleansing of the people whose forefathers created America”.
Duke was elected to Louisiana’s House of Representatives in 1989 and served one term. And so, here we are.
“Just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK?”
Duke’s campaign site also points out that he “pursued a PhD in the largest university in Ukraine and in 2005 completed his Doctoral Defense in Kiev”.
Doré insisted, as is historically correct, that the Republican Party and the conservative movement had supported limited government since long before Duke.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s office said Duke, who was convicted of tax evasion in 2002, had his voter registration restored in May of this year.
Duke is a former state representative who represented suburban New Orleans for a single term more than two decades ago and was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. “And most Americans embrace most of the issues that I’ve championed for years”.
Critics of the ex-KKK Grand Wizard took to social media to express their outrage and confusion over the fact that a convicted felon and former hate group leader can even run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. “We must protect American jobs and businesses”, he said.
Duke’s emergence in the Louisiana Senate race threatens to reinforce the narrative that The Donald has brought out racial hatred throughout his campaign.
Duke, who seeks to represent the U.S. state of Louisiana in the Senate, was convicted for tax fraud and embezzling funds in 2002, and spent one year in federal prison. David Duke’s history of hate marks a dark stain on Louisiana’s past and has no place in our current conversation.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, tells Newsweek it won’t help Trump that Duke has re-emerged in the public eye, and says he expects Trump to be questioned about Duke’s support.
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“The recurrence of a cancer like David Duke was encouraged and made possible by the toxic climate of racism and fear-mongering dominating the Republican party in this election cycle”.
