{"id":2008350,"date":"2023-08-22T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-running-for-senate-haunted-by-racism-scandals\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T20:25:33","slug":"democrat-running-for-senate-haunted-by-racism-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-running-for-senate-haunted-by-racism-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senate candidate haunted by racism scandals."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fdemocrat-running-for-senate-haunted-by-racism-scandals%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=2008350&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Democrat Running for Senate Haunted by Racism Scandals\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/climate-crisis-watch-heres-how-much-carbon-the-dnc-is-emitting-to-troll-republicans-at-gop-debate\" data-post-url id=\"print-1785279\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>Former congresswoman Debbie\u2064 Mucarsel-Powell accused of committing \u2062violence through \u2062cultural appropriation<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, \u200ba former Democratic congresswoman from Florida, announced she is challenging Sen. Rick Scott (R., Fla.) \u2064in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top Democrats, \u200cincluding Senate Majority Leader \u2064Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/04\/debbie-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-dont-buy-into-that-at-all-are-far-left-policies-behind-hispanic-voters-rightward-shift\/\" title=\"\u2018They Don\u2019t Buy Into That At All\u2019: Are Far-Left Policies Behind Hispanic Voters\u2019 Rightward Shift?\">mucarsel-powell<\/a>-rick-scott-2024-challenge-00109897&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>urging<\/a> Mucarsel-Powell \u2063to enter the U.S. \u2062Senate race in \u200bFlorida.<\/li>\n<li>Mucarsel-Powell is a \u200clong shot to win. At one time considered a swing state, Florida has become an increasingly hostile environment for Democrats in recent years. \u200dSen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) won reelection in \u20642022 by a margin of 16\u2063 percentage points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Big picture<\/strong>: Forget the general election. Mucarsel-Powell might struggle to win\u2062 the Democratic primary given her habit of &#8220;committing racist \u200dviolence&#8221; through &#8220;cultural appropriation,&#8221; in the parlance of the radical left.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <em>Washington\u200c Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/mucarsel-powell-costume-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis<\/a> determined that\u2064 the former congresswoman \u2064has problematically\u200d appropriated\u200b both iterations \u200dof Indian culture\u2014dots <em>and<\/em> feathers\u2014by wearing costumes \u2062most liberals would describe as racist if \u2062a \u2064Republican wore them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a member of Congress in 2019, Mucarsel-Powell appeared to enjoy her colleague Rep. Steve Cohen&#8217;s (D., \u2062Tenn.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-running-for-senate-haunted-by-racism-scandals\/\" title=\"Democratic Senate candidate haunted by racism scandals.\">cheap \u2063stunt involving fried chicken<\/a>, which \u200ctwo of America&#8217;s most\u2062 prominent black women <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2019\/05\/03\/diamond-and-silk-dig-rep-cohen-for-racially-insensitive-chicken-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> as &#8220;racially insensitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: It doesn&#8217;t really. The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/mucarsel-powell-costume-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> Mucarsel-Powell&#8217;s fetish for cultural appropriation because \u2064America is \u200ca \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wow-gab-ceo-defies-tech-tyrants-restores-all-of-president-trumps-tweets-from-twitter-trumps-account-on-gab-https-gab-com-realdonaldtrump\/\" title=\"WOW! Gab CEO Defies Tech Tyrants \u2013 Restores ALL of President Trump\u2019s Tweets from Twitter \u2014 Trump\u2019s Account on Gab https:\/\/gab.com\/realdonaldtrump\">free country<\/a>. Nevertheless,\u200d the\u200c Democratic \u2062Party and its supporters are constantly whining about this crap, so maybe they will care? (They won&#8217;t, because it&#8217;s only bad when a Republican \u2062does it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go deeper<\/strong>: For some reason, Chuck\u200b Schumer and the Democratic Party <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/racism-scandal-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">really don&#8217;t want black candidates winning\u2063 primaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, accused of cultural appropriation, is now challenging Sen. Rick Scott in the 2024 election. Prominent Democrats, like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have been encouraging her to enter the U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2008351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008350","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}