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Racist U.S. Congressman Endorses Racist Candidate for Toronto Mayor

U.S. Congressman Steve King of Iowa speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa tweeted out an endorsement for Faith “Goldy” Bazos, a white nationalist hoping to become the next mayor in Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

Last night, King tweeted(link is external) that he believed Goldy was “an excellent candidate for Toronto mayor” who was “Pro Western Civilization (sic) and a fighter for our values.”

In light of Goldy’s well-publicized history of extremism, it’s difficult to interpret King’s endorsement of Goldy on account of her “Pro Western Civilization” message as anything beyond an endorsement of white supremacy.

As we’ve noted many times in our reporting, Goldy is an unabashed white nationalist. In 2017, Goldy was fired from Rebel Media—a notoriously far-right Canadian outlet—after she appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast while attending the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists terrorized the streets and a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer. Later that year, Goldy identified herself(link is external) as a white nationalist while appearing on the web-based white supremacist radio outlet Red Ice. She’s recited(link is external) and defended(link is external) the “14 Words(link is external)” white supremacist slogan and said the "pervasiveness of homosexuality"(link is external) enabled Nazi Germany. Goldy has recommended(link is external) literature that advocates for the “elimination of Jews” and has pulled supporters from(link is external) local extremist groups to work her campaign for mayor.

King has a well-documented track record(link is external) of using white supremacist rhetoric and fighting in Congress for an anti-immigrant agenda(link is external), yet Republicans have remained astoundingly hushed when it comes to condemning King’s stated views. Those viewers are perhaps most transparently on display on King’s Twitter profile, where the congressman is often boosting the voices of known neo-Nazis(link is external) and white supremacists(link is external), or spreading their decades-old(link is external) talking points(link is external) himself.

As we reported yesterday, Goldy is already preparing(link is external) a game plan for her projected loss that involves accusing the election system in Toronto of being rigged against her.