(Jewish Group) Her state party (GOP) apologized for her. But she continues to spread antisemitism [View all]

Her state party apologized for her. But this GOP nominee continues to spread antisemitic tropes.

Earlier this year, the Minnesota Republican Party apologized for screening a video of a statewide candidate that depicted Jewish billionaire George Soros as a puppet-master controlling Jewish Democrats. That didn’t stop the candidate — now standing as the party’s nominee for secretary of state — from promoting another conspiracy theory about Soros, this time in front of a Jewish audience.

But Kim Crockett is hardly the only Republican running in a competitive race to oversee a state’s elections who has trafficked in antisemitic stereotypes. Candidates in other swing states — Nevada and Michigan — have also invoked the conspiracy theory about Soros, which the Anti-Defamation League has deemed a common antisemitic trope. And also like Crockett, they have repeated spurious claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

“We’ve had 16 years of a Soros-funded secretary of state’s office that has left us disconnected from the civic tradition of in-person voting,” Crockett, who won the GOP primary for Minnesota’s chief elections officer earlier this month, said during a candidate forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition in Minneapolis. A recording of her remarks at the closed-for-press event was obtained by the Forward on Thursday.

Crockett, who called the 2020 presidential election “rigged,” is running against the Democratic incumbent Steve Simon, who is Jewish.

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