Morgan Ortagus accused a GOP Tennessee lawmaker of anti-Semitism after she and two other congressional candidates were kicked off the primary ballot.
GOP officials told the newspaper last week that the three hopefuls had been accused of violating party bylaws, which require candidates to have voted in three of the last four statewide Republican primaries.
Ortagus called the vote “deeply disappointing,” saying she was “a bona fide Republican by their standards, and frankly, by any metric.” Mike Pompeo, accompanied by Ortagus, speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC on June 10, 2020.Ortagus had been criticized for launching a bid for the House of Representatives mere months after moving to the state.Ortagus was among three congressional candidates kicked off the primary ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party.
In a subsequent statement, Ortagus rounded on Republican state Sen. Frank Niceley, who spearheaded a newly enacted law requiring US House and Senate candidates from Tennessee to have lived in the state for at least three years. The law would not have applied to Ortagus, since she announced her candidacy before it took effect.about the possibility of Ortagus being removed from the ballot. “I think Jared Kushner — he’s Jewish, she’s Jewish — I think Jared will be upset.
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