{"id":1508093,"date":"2022-06-08T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508093"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:35:31","slug":"california-republican-flops-in-primary-after-free-beacon-unearths-anti-semitic-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-republican-flops-in-primary-after-free-beacon-unearths-anti-semitic-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"California Republican Flops in Primary After Free Beacon Unearths Anti-Semitic Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-republican-flops-in-primary-after-free-beacon-unearths-anti-semitic-rant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Young Kim bests primary challenger Greg Raths in California&#8217;s 40th Congressional District<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGreg Raths for Congress 2022 Facebook\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 June 8, 2022 3:22 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>California congressional hopeful Greg Raths (R.) is poised to lose his primary bid against Rep. Young Kim after the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> unearthed an anti-Semitic rant that saw Raths accuse the &#8220;Jewish community&#8221; of using money to &#8220;control&#8221; politicians.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, Raths trails Kim by 10 points with approximately 62 percent of the vote recorded. While the race hasn&#8217;t been called, Raths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1086724905305519&#038;set=a.961046781206666\">acknowledged his loss<\/a> on Facebook\u2014when a follower asked him if he won the race, Raths replied, &#8220;no.&#8221; Democrat Asif Mahmood, meanwhile, leads Kim by 5 points, meaning the pair is set to face off in November. In California&#8217;s jungle primary system, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1602807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.51.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.51.09-PM.png 752w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.51.09-PM-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-08-at-2.51.09-PM-736x298.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raths&#8217;s loss comes less than two weeks after the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/california-republican-goes-full-ilhan-omar-in-anti-semitic-rant\/\">exposed anti-Semitic comments<\/a> the Republican made at a May 20 Orange County Islamic Foundation candidate forum. During that event, Raths claimed U.S. support for Israel is bought and paid for by the &#8220;Jewish community&#8221; and called for the government to &#8220;rein in&#8221; U.S. foreign aid to the Jewish state, a position he said he can support because he hasn&#8217;t taken &#8220;one dime&#8221; from the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the problem. Israeli PAC in Washington, they got money and they control a lot of these politicians. And the other side, the Palestinians, they don&#8217;t have the clout. So these politicians go where the money is, unfortunately,&#8221; Raths said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why the foreign aid is so large going to Israel. \u2026 The Jewish community has never given me one dime, so I&#8217;m not beholden to them at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raths&#8217;s comments\u2014as well as his bungled response\u2014almost certainly led to his campaign&#8217;s demise. Raths quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bandlersbanter\/status\/1529940524211109888?s=20&#038;t=AaAM3HirjIHxrxU3Mz7LdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized<\/a> following the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u2018s report, though that apology came as he simultaneously liked a number of tweets defending his remarks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDookoos\/status\/1530375595728977921?s=20&#038;t=AaAM3HirjIHxrxU3Mz7LdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a> that said the &#8220;Canaanites fear our uprising.&#8221; When a prominent Jewish ally, Mission Viejo city councilman Ed Sachs (R.), later called Raths to pull his endorsement, the congressional hopeful &#8220;became totally defensive,&#8221; according to <em>Jewish Insider<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was like, \u2018A rabbi endorsed me,&#8217; or \u2018A rabbi and I serve hot meals together,&#8217; or, \u2018I know a rabbi.&#8217; OK, well, mazel tov,&#8221; Sachs <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/06\/young-kim-greg-raths-california-orange-county-republican-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the outlet. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t move anything from your comments about \u2018Jews give money to politicians, ergo they control politicians who give more money to Israel, and no money to the country of Palestine.&#8217; That is just abrasively ignorant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raths also misrepresented his own comments in an interview with the <em>Insider<\/em>, during which the Republican insisted that during the May forum he praised the Jewish community. He did not. When the <em>New York Post<\/em> covered his remarks, Raths provided a similarly bizarre response, saying he&#8217;s &#8220;totally not anti-Semitic&#8221; because his &#8220;brother is Jewish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t mean control as in \u2018do as I say because we give you all this money,'&#8221; Raths added. &#8220;No they don&#8217;t control, maybe some do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Much like his response to his anti-Semitic comments, Raths flip-flopped on his Wednesday morning concession. Roughly half an hour after Raths said he lost the race, the Republican issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1087165538594789&#038;set=a.961046781206666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new post<\/a> saying his &#8220;race has not been called yet with thousands of votes left to be counted.&#8221; Raths did, however, note that &#8220;as of this time we are trailing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kim is now the favorite in her general election battle against Mahmood, as California&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-2022-maps\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new congressional maps<\/a> made the 40th district more solidly red. The Republican in November called America&#8217;s relationship with Israel &#8220;very, very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Young Kim bests primary challenger Greg Raths in California&#8217;s 40th Congressional District  Greg Raths for Congress 2022 Facebook  Collin Anderson \u2022 June 8, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}