White Supremacist Steve King Endorses Zach Lahn for Governor
DES MOINES – Last night, Republican gubernatorial candidate, longtime political insider, and Kansas carpetbagger Zach Lahn accepted the endorsement of disgraced former Congressman and proud, avowed white supremacist Steve King. Lahn praised King as someone who “did the right thing even when it was unpopular,” stays “true to his principles,” and said he is “honored to have [King’s] support,” despite the former Congressman’s decades-long record of promoting hateful views and conspiracy theories.
IDP Chair Rita Hart released the following statement in response:
“Steve King’s tenure in Congress was a national embarrassment for our state. While Iowans turned the page on King’s shameful legacy six years ago, Zach Lahn wants to bring it back and embrace it. Steve King is a proud, avowed white supremacist who has peddled harmful conspiracy theories and used his role in Congress to spew hatred. Is that the ‘heritage’ and ‘culture’ that Lahn wants to see back in Iowa? Iowans want nothing to do with that and will reject Lahn — and King — once again.”
Here are some of the “principled” comments Steve King has made as Zach Lahn says he is “honored to have his support”:
- King asked why it was “offensive” to be a white nationalist: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”
- King promoted white nationalists and neo-Nazis on social media.
- At the 2016 RNC Convention, King claimed that “non-white groups haven’t contributed as much as whites to civilization.”
- In 2016, King met “with leaders of the far-right Freedom Party, including Heinz-Christian Strache and Norbert Hofer. The party was founded in the 1950s by former Nazis.”
- King refused to deny being a white supremacist.
- King touted the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory
- King claimed he didn’t understand why the term “white supremacist” was derogatory.
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