Chris Madel, a Minneapolis lawyer who represented the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good, said Monday that he was ending his Republican campaign for governor of Minnesota after a second protester was killed by federal authorities.
“I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state,” Madel said in a video message he posted on social media, “nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Madel, who has never held elected office, launched his candidacy in December as a political outsider and a fierce defender of law enforcement. One of nearly a dozen candidates in the Republican primary for governor, Madel had been endorsed by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
Coward
He should stay in the race, and if he won he should stand up to trump.
All dropping out does is help whatever sycophant makes it to the general with an R by their name.
At the same time, it’s hard not to understand where he’s coming from as well. Throughout the campaign he and his family would be subjected to the full force of the MAGA hate machine. This can have deadly consequences for candidates perceived to not be loyal enough to Il Duce.
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Il douche?
It’s how fascists referred to Mussolini while he was in power.
It means “the leader” in Italian. It was used by Mussolini, leader of the Italian National Fascist Party in the same way “der Führer” was used to refer to Hitler.
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And this guy staying in the race would split the Republican vote handing it to the Dems, or he’d be the only Republican and no matter what ICE loses…
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Only way that could happen would be if this guy stayed in the race and ran as an independent, which is what he is not doing and I believe is what the other commenter is saying he should have done instead
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Things make more sense when you read a full comment…
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100% exactly. Came here to say “and 20 worse scumbags will replace him.”
Poor poor Americans. You are so young in autocracies, you don’t even know what co-optation means and how it works in real life. Soon you’ll learn
Shits way older than any of us have been alive and Americans have more experience with it than most countries with the exception of countries America has invaded…