Embattled Republican House candidate Ted Howze on Thursday again denied writing inflammatory and bigoted social media posts that have begun to cost him party support, dismissing accusations that he did so as “Brett Kavanaugh style attacks'
OAKLAND — The California Republican Party pulled its endorsement of embattled Republican House candidate Ted Howze on Thursday over inflammatory and bigoted social media posts.social media posts from Howze’s personal accounts that derided Muslims, disseminated conspiracy theories and insinuated that Democratic elected officials were guilty of murder.“Mr.
The formal renunciation follows moves from Republican leaders to distance themselves from Howze and underscores the risk that a growing scandal could torpedo the party's chances to claw back a seat they lost in 2018. Howze has repeatedly denied he wrote the posts in question, including Thursday when he dismissed accusations as “Brett Kavanaugh style attacks."
“The maliciously false attacks on our campaign based [on] old social media posts being attributed to me are Fake News. They do not resemble anything close to my personal words or actions exhibited during my decades-long record of service in the Central Valley,” Howze said in a statement, saying he was “under attack by national Democrats.”
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