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Minnesota Senate hopeful Karin Housley once compared Michelle Obama to a “chimp.” The Republican state senator, who’s running against Democratic Sen. Tina Smith, attacked Obama’s posture when she met Queen Elizabeth II. “Speaking of Bedtime for Bonzo, I think even that chimp stood up straighter than Michelle,” Housley wrote in a 2009 Facebook post, the Huffington Post reported this week. When HuffPost asked Housley’s spokesperson about the racist post, he suggested that the outlet was doing Smith’s “dirty work.”North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp apologized Tuesday after her campaign published a newspaper ad that mistakenly named survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Some of the women on the list hadn’t give their consent to be outed, while others hadn’t experienced abuse at all. "This was incompetent. It was wrong. It should have never happened," said Heitkamp, who emphasized her support for sexual assault survivors when she voted against confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat running for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, is facing criticism for campaigning with Hollywood elites— specifically, Cockburn’s daughter, actress Olivia Wilde. Meanwhile, her opponent Denver Riggleman “liked” several racist, sexist, and generally offensive Facebook pages, BuzzFeed News reported, including one that mocked rape. His spokesperson said Riggleman "does not remember liking some of these pages." FYI: Cockburn once melted the internet by accusing Riggleman of liking “Bigfoot erotica,” which he denied.
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“It’s really nice to go out and meet people — they say, ‘Yeah, we’re really not that excited about the Republican or Democratic Party right now. We want some moderation in the conversation.’”
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