Minnesota Republicans smear Keith Ellison days after new GOP chair proclaimed party isn’t racist

On Saturday, Jennifer Carnahan was elected the new chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. During a news conference following her victory, she proclaimed that Democrats are “going to have a really hard time calling us the party of racists and sexists. Look at who our party base just elected.”

Just two days later, Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District Republican Party published a Facebook post calling Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) the state’s “Head Muslim Goat Humper” and a “raving, Louis Farrakhan supporting, anti-Semite, anti-white racist and fascist American.”...
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