California’s Republican convention ejected a candidate for U.S. Senate over his statements of praise for Adolf Hitler and his belief that Jewish representation in government should be limited.
The candidate, Patrick Little, is running for the seat held by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The primary is June 5.
California’s GOP spokesman Matt Fleming said that Little has never been an active participant in Republican politics, USA Today reported.
"Mr. Little has never been an active member of our party. I do not know Mr. Little and I am not familiar with his positions. But in the strongest terms possible, we condemn anti-Semitism and any other form of religious bigotry, just as we do with racism, sexism, or anything else that can be construed as a hateful point of view," Fleming said.
Little has said on his blog Hitler was "one of the greatest leaders in history" and that there was no evidence of the Holocaust, in which Germans killed 6 million Jews. “There were concert halls, swimming pools, soccer fields, ice cream, and many other luxuries at Auschwitz,” according to Little, USA Today reported.
On his campaign website, Little’s platform calls for “limiting representation of Jews in the government, to include judgeships, to number proportional to their percentage of the U.S. population.”
After being ejected Saturday, Little posted a video in which he said that participants at the convention were "Zionist stooges," HuffPost reported.
A put him at 18 percent overall, while Feinstein remains in the lead at 39 percent.
California’s primary pits all candidates against each other, with the top 2 regardless of party going to the November primary, USA Today’s report said.
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