The incumbent Republican is set to stand trial for misusing campaign funds this fall.
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter is sending Islamophobic mail pieces to voters in his Southern California district, attacking his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, for his deceased grandfather alleged ties to a 1972 terrorist attack.
Hunter’s campaign confirmed that it is distributing the mailer, which solicits contributions from donors. Campa-Najjar is challenging Hunter for a second straight election, following Hunter’s victory, 52 percent to 48 percent, in the 2018 midterms. In that election, Hunter and his alliesattacked Campa-Najjar, who has passed government security clearances, for the terrorist act Campa-Najjar’s grandfather, Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, allegedly committed. Campa-Najjar never met his grandfather, who died before the Democrat was born.
In 2018, Hunter’s campaign ran a television ad trying to tie Campa-Najjar to the attack, accusing him of using “three different names to hide his family’s ties to terrorism” and baselessly saying Campa-Najjar was supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. During a speech to supporters last September, Hunter claimed “radical Muslims are trying to infiltrate the U.S. government.”
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