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David Duke qualifies for Louisiana Senate debate
Source: Politico
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has qualified for a televised debate in Louisiana's Senate race after a new poll showed him drawing 5 percent of the vote.
Duke, a white supremacist, announced he was running late this summer, saying GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump had inspired him and drawn more followers to his cause. Other Republicans in the state have disavowed him and the Republican National Committee and Louisiana GOP explored booting him out of the party.
Raycom Media, which owns four television stations in the state, commissioned a poll to determine who would qualify for the Nov. 2 debate, and Duke met the 5 percent threshold, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate. Dillard University, a historically black university in New Orleans, is hosting the debate.
Louisiana hold its all-party primary on Election Day. A candidate can win the seat with a majority of the vote, but the Senate seat looks almost certain to go to a Dec. 10 runoff between the two top vote-getters that day. GOP State Treasurer John Kennedy led the poll with 24 percent of the vote, followed by Democratic Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell with 19 percent and Democratic attorney Caroline Fayard with 12 percent. Republican congressmen Charles Boustany and John Fleming earned 12 and 11 percent of the vote, respectively.
Duke, a white supremacist, announced he was running late this summer, saying GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump had inspired him and drawn more followers to his cause. Other Republicans in the state have disavowed him and the Republican National Committee and Louisiana GOP explored booting him out of the party.
Raycom Media, which owns four television stations in the state, commissioned a poll to determine who would qualify for the Nov. 2 debate, and Duke met the 5 percent threshold, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate. Dillard University, a historically black university in New Orleans, is hosting the debate.
Louisiana hold its all-party primary on Election Day. A candidate can win the seat with a majority of the vote, but the Senate seat looks almost certain to go to a Dec. 10 runoff between the two top vote-getters that day. GOP State Treasurer John Kennedy led the poll with 24 percent of the vote, followed by Democratic Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell with 19 percent and Democratic attorney Caroline Fayard with 12 percent. Republican congressmen Charles Boustany and John Fleming earned 12 and 11 percent of the vote, respectively.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/david-duke-qualifies-louisiana-ballot-230160
I'd expect a shout-out to his comrade in arms, Donald Trump.
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David Duke qualifies for Louisiana Senate debate (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2016
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forest444
(5,902 posts)1. Good.
He is the face of today's GOP after all. The more extremists like Duke are brought out of the shadows, the less harm they can do to the nation as a whole.
Saviolo
(3,283 posts)2. Wouldn't it be nice...
...if David Duke's endorsement of Trump and his "policies" was the final nail in the coffin. The final move that was just TOO FAR for people to go to support Trump, when they can't actually follow a real Klansman to the ballot box and the bottom falls out of Trump's floor? All he'll be left with are the truly despicable and deplorable white nationalists.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)3. Ex-Ku Kux Klan leader garners 5% of votes in LA, ...........
Tells you everything you need to know about the state of our nation
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)6. not about MY part of the nation
the old south is still stuggling with its demons.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,365 posts)4. Great! Go David, Go! You can do this!
I'm guessing that every vote for Duke is a vote taken from the Republicans.
krepitch
(26 posts)5. "Dillard University, a historically black university in New Orleans, is hosting the debate."