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WV GOP can't remove House candidate after eye-popping racist posts
What happened
AlterNet reports that Chris Clagett, the Republican nominee for West Virginia’s 91st House District, remained on the ballot after confirming he wrote racist social-media posts targeting Black women and Muslims. State law prevented the West Virginia Republican Party from replacing him at that stage even if he resigned. Clagett faced Democrat David Michaels in the heavily Republican Berkeley County district, with early voting already underway and Election Day set for November 3.
Clagett defended one post by invoking “context” and then repeated its premise, saying the Black women…
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