(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: John James- 2023 Update [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-16 On this date in both 2019, as well as 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” had its original profile of the sitting U.S. House Representative from Michigan’s 10th Congressional District, John James, who failed in his first two attempts to get into the U.S. Senate seat in both 2018 and 2020. In July of 2018, James campaigned along side conservative radio personality, fanatical NRA supporter, alleged pedophile, and admitted draft dodger Ted Nugent, who referred to James as his “blood brother”. Meanwhile, Donald Trump endorsed him because “he saw him on TV and said ‘HE’S A STAR!’” Fast forward to October of 2018, the Trump-endorsed James ran an ad that featured a shot of a school bulletin board, and for whatever reason… there was a swastika on it. He was forced to apologize, but folks began to have some serious questions about what was going on with the James campaign… which led to a Detroit Metro Times investigation that showed that his campaign had taken cash from anti-immigrant white supremacIsts and hate group leaders. Which, as he was promoting himself as an African-American candidate kind of starts to establish a pattern that he’s either oblivious to the fact that he’s being propped up by bigots, or that he just doesn’t care. As 2020 approached, and the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response kept getting worse, l John James began trying to scrub his social media accounts from any association he previously had with Donald Trump. While in some, it was cropping out Trump logos, in others, he’s deleted videos where he promised to “support the Trump administration 2000%”. This double-turn is especially sad, given that as of February of 2019, Trump was considering nominating John James to be the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. (even though he has zero foreign policy or diplomacy experience). As the election approached, James was being supported by a completely DIFFERENT kind of hate group, the anti-gay Family Research Council. It might also help his case if Michigan wasn’t trending left, particularly after the public has rallied around Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during the Covid-19 outbreak, especially after a group of domestic terrorists just got arrested plotting to kidnap her for daring to infringe upon their “freedom” to run around in public without masks spreading the disease. Meanwhile, John James was bumbling about Michigan without a mask ALL THE TIME and ignoring the edict. He also waited four days to come out and make a statement to criticize the right-wing terrorists who were prepared to stage a violent takeover of the Michigan state government. Another thing not helping James in his quest to unseat Gary Peters? He won’t even refute that his company received tax breaks dependent on job creation… and they never created jobs. John James lost to Senator Gary Peters by about 90,000 votes… But he did not go away. He ran for U.S. House instead in 2022 in MI-10, and with 48.8% of the votes in his district, he won by a margin of exactly 1600 votes. Say thanks to the Working Class Party for pulling over 5,000 votes away from the Democratic nominee, Carl Marlinga. And it’s known that John James is such a pathetic candidate that Marlinga, as well as a slew of other Democrats are lining up to challenge him in 2024. Cross your fingers that John James is a "one and done" member of Congress. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/16/2199556/-Fanatical-Republican-Extremist-of-the-Day-John-James-2023-Update?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/