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=<div>720</div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/following-media-matters-reporting-cagop-removes-endorsement-qanon-candidate-who-used-n" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/following-media-matters-reporting-cagop-removes-endorsement-qanon-candidate-who-used-n</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 18.9291px;">The California Republican Party has dropped its endorsement of congressional candidate and writer Mike Cargile. Media Matters had recently reported that Cargile is a QAnon supporter who wrote an anti-Black rant on Facebook in which he used the n-word. He has also repeatedly shared bigoted memes on the platform.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 18.9291px;">Cargile is running for Congress in California’s 35th Congressional District against incumbent Democratic Rep. Norma Torres. The California Republican Party had <a href="https://archive.is/xKZ4Q" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(25, 118, 210); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">backed</a> his congressional campaign and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CARepublicanParty/posts/cagopendorsed-mike-cargile-for-congress-ca-35-mike-cargile-is-running-for-congre/2706418399444970/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(25, 118, 210); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stated</a> on Facebook in January that it is “proud to endorse” him. </p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 18.9291px;">Media Matters previously <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(25, 118, 210); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">documented</a> that Cargile is a supporter of QAnon, a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(25, 118, 210); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violence-linked conspiracy theory</a> that is based on cryptic posts to online message boards from an anonymous user known as “Q" that have spread rampantly on social media and among fringe right-wing media. QAnon conspiracy theorists essentially believe that President Donald Trump is secretly working to take down the purported “deep state,” a supposed cabal of high-ranking officials who they claim are operating pedophile rings.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 18.9291px;">Cargile has also <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/california-gop-endorsed-qanon-supporter-who-says-coronavirus-scamdemic" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(25, 118, 210); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a> that the coronavirus is a “scamdemic” and “NOTHING compared to the diseases and plagues headed this way via the rats and the homeless”; and has praised the lie-filled Plandemic video as “EXACTLY why I'm in this race!” ...</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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