{"id":2205600,"date":"2024-03-25T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-spurn-leading-senate-candidate-after-he-uses-racial-slur\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:43:02","slug":"house-dems-spurn-leading-senate-candidate-after-he-uses-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-spurn-leading-senate-candidate-after-he-uses-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats reject top Senate contender for racial slur usage"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhouse-dems-spurn-leading-senate-candidate-after-he-uses-racial-slur%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=2205600&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--><h2>House Dems Spurn \u2064Leading \u200bSenate Candidate After He Uses Racial Slur<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Six\u2062 House\u200c Democrats are spurning their colleague Rep. David Trone (D., Md.),\u2064 the \u200bfrontrunner in Maryland\u2019s Democratic Senate primary, after \u2064he used a racial slur to attack\u200c Republicans \u2062during a recent\u2063 House hearing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Backlash and\u200c Endorsements<\/h3>\n<p>In the aftermath of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billboards-supporting-morgan-wallen-pop-up-around-nashville\/\" title=\"Billboards Supporting Morgan Wallen Pop-Up Around Nashville\">racial slur incident<\/a>, David Trone&#8217;s Democratic opponent, Prince George&#8217;s County executive Angela Alsobrooks, gained endorsements from influential Democratic representatives including Barbara Lee (Calif.), Yvette\u2062 Clarke (N.Y.), Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), Joyce Beatty (Ohio), and Jasmine Crockett (Texas), as reported by\u2062 <i>Axios<\/i>. Lee and Clarke praised Alsobrooks for her vision and integrity, positioning her as \u2062the ideal representative for Maryland in the Senate. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., \u2062Md.)\u2063 also joined the group endorsing \u2063Alsobrooks.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversial Remark and Apology<\/h3>\n<p>Following Trone&#8217;s use\u2064 of\u2064 the racially offensive term \u2018jigaboo\u2019 in a\u200c House hearing, he\u2063 later claimed he intended to say \u2062\u2018bugaboo\u2019 and issued an apology. Acknowledging his \u2063mistake, Trone admitted\u2064 the term he used was offensive \u2063and expressed remorse for the hurt caused.\u2063 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-bill-would-bar-unions-from-disguising-organizers-as-real-employees-in-targeted-firms\/\" title=\"New Bill Aims to Prevent Unions from Pretending to be Actual Employees in Targeted Companies.\">incident shed light<\/a> on the importance of using language responsibly, especially in the public domain.<\/p>\n<h3>Outcome of Poll and Political \u2063Landscape<\/h3>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/devin-nunes-to-newsmax-trump-wants-to-win-back-the-house-senate-before-wh\/\" title=\"Devin Nunes to Newsmax: Trump Wants to Win Back the House, Senate, Before WH\">recent poll revealed<\/a> that both \u2063Trone and Alsobrooks\u200c would \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unfunded-cost-of-retirement-benefits-reaches-1-14-trillion-report\/\" title=\"Retirement benefits' unfunded cost hits .14 trillion: Report\">face significant deficits<\/a> against Republican\u200d candidate Larry Hogan, a former\u200c Maryland governor.\u200d Hogan emerged \u200cas the frontrunner, leading Trone by\u200c 12 points and Alsobrooks\u2062 by 14 \u2062points. The survey also indicated Hogan&#8217;s\u2064 significantly higher favorability ratings among Maryland voters compared to his Democratic \u200dcounterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. David Trone faces backlash from six House Democrats for using a racial slur against Republicans during a House hearing. The incident has led to opposition from his Democratic Senate primary competitor, the Prince George&#8217;s County executive. Trone, a frontrunner in Maryland&#8217;s Senate race, now grapples with the fallout from his controversial statements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2205601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GJhxvIFW8AArY3Y_736x514.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GJhxvIFW8AArY3Y_736x514.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205600","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\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}