Ex-Klansman David Duke Floats Another Run For Congress—Against GOP Whip

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and avid Donald Trump supporter, said in an interview with the Daily Beast that he is seriously considering running for Congress. He is weighing a campaign against Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the House majority whip, who, ironically, attracted controversy when it was reported in 2014 that he spoke at an event sponsored by Duke's white nationalist group in 2002.

Duke told the Daily Beast that he was driven to run by last week's massacre of five white police officers in Dallas, as well as Scalise's vote for legislation restricting Confederate flags on federal veterans' cemeteries.

“He crawled on his hands and his knees to the black caucus. This should not stand,” Duke said.

Duke was elected in 1989 to one term in Louisiana's House of Representative before launching several unsuccessful bids for various state and federal offices, including for the House district that Scalise now represents, in 1999.

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1. they make a cute couple...

[Feeling the Bern]

2. As openly racist as Louisiana has been in the past and now, it seems to be having a revival,

Duke might actually win. Especially since he has been saying his entire adult life the same racist shit that Trump has said.

Why not just bring back the old Black Codes Louisiana had as well?

[Night Watchman]

3. You mean he's NOT gonna be Trump's Running Mate?

I'm shocked!

[keithbvadu2]

4. Duke is available? --- VP material for the Donald?

[forest444]

5. Go for it Dave!

You are the real face of today's GOP after all.

[sarcasmo]

6. The KKK, is A OK, with the GOP.