Lauren Witzke, a former Republican candidate for US Senate in Delaware bragged that she was able to win the GOP primary by focusing her campaign efforts on “issues that mattered to white people.”
In a clip posted to social media by Right Wing Watch, Witzke, who was endorsed by white supremacist Nick Fuentes, said she was able to get more votes “than any other Republican in Delaware history” because she went after union workers and “spoke to my white constituents.”
“It is so much easier to flip a union worker than it is an inner-city Black person. I didn’t try to placate a constituency that would never vote for me,” Witzke said.
“I went after those who have struggled, who had children that were dying from the opioid epidemic, people in unions who were being replaced by foreign workers and they were watching as their wages were decreasing and they were being flooded with foreigners who would work twice as long for half as much,” she said. “I was able to flip a whole base of people from Democrat to Republican based on issues that mattered to white people.”
“That matters,” she added. “It may be controversial to say that, but that was my method and it worked.”
However, Witzke’s strategy did not pay off in a state like Delaware which has one of the highest percentage of Black residents and where about 10% of the population is Hispanic.
Witzke lost to incumbent Democrat Sen. Chris Coons in the general election by about 20 points.
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