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Midterm elections in Trump era bring high engagement from racists, extremists

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, racists, neo-Nazis and alt-right extremists embraced his candidacy with enthusiasm.

That election marked a shift because radical right extremists, for years largely confined to the fringes of the political conversation, saw their interests represented in the mainstream. But their energy is not confined to Trump, as a variety of hate groups and extremists fervently followed midterm races around the country.

The neo-Nazi聽Daily Stormer website, multiple figures in the racist 鈥渁lt-right鈥 and Richard Spencer鈥檚 National Policy Institute聽(which had been quiet for months), live-blogged the elections, offered commentary and encouraged their followers to participate.

鈥滐豢You can take it to the bank: American elections are now a race war. It is us against the brown hordes,鈥 Andrew Anglin聽wrote Wednesday on the Daily Stormer.

Nicholas J. Fuentes, a YouTube personality who attended the deadly 鈥Unite the Right鈥 rally聽in 2017, also live-tweeted election results, praising Trump and criticizing national Republican leaders.

鈥淗opefully this will be a wake up call for the GOP and most importantly Trump that the Heritage agenda just won鈥檛 win elections anymore. We have to fully embrace populist-nationalism or we鈥檒l fail,鈥 Fuentes tweeted Tuesday night.

Some extremists took their message offline and onto the campaign trail, becoming candidates themselves. Outspoken neo-Nazi Art Jones ran as a Republican and lost his bid for a Chicago-area seat in a reliably blue district, although he pulled in 55,000 votes. Russell Walker, a Republican state House candidate聽in North Carolina who said, 鈥淕od is a racist鈥 and Jewish people 鈥渁ll descend from Satan,鈥 got 8,500 votes.

Other candidates with experience courting the political mainstream聽fueled their campaigns with hateful rhetoric.聽U.S. Rep. Steve King, a Republican incumbent from Iowa who has expressed neo-Nazi and racist sympathies, won re-election.

But , failed to unseat Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. Virulent nativist and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach聽was also cleared from the field, losing the Kansas governor's race.

The candidates took part in an unusually ugly election season that saw Trump toss coded racial insults on Twitter, like referring to Florida鈥檚 聽without offering anything to back it up. Florida鈥檚 governor-elect Ron DeSantis didn鈥檛 even bother with codes when he told voters they would 鈥渕onkey this up鈥 if they elected his opponent聽Gillum, who is black.

The tight contests in Georgia and Florida, where African Americans were the Democratic nominees in both states, caught the attention of League of the South听肠丑颈别蹿 Michael Hill.

Hill tweeted Tuesday that 鈥渢wo negro Communists鈥 were running, along with 鈥渘umerous socialists/communists.鈥

鈥淚f you choose not to vote for national candidates in today鈥檚 elections (e.g. Senate, House of Representatives), please at least vote in your local and Statewide races,鈥 Hill wrote.

In the past, the League of the South has steered members away from congressional and Senate races, as those elected would have little impact on the Southern Secessionist movement.

Instead, Hill and other white nationalists have focused on local races, where a smaller number of voters and elected officials can push their cause more effectively and with less widespread attention.

Voters in Georgia were also targeted by racist robocalls from Idaho white supremacist Scott D. Rhodes, who has made similar calls to Virginia聽and Florida. The calls came from Rhodes鈥 neo-Nazi propaganda operation, Road to Power.聽聽a voice identifying itself as 鈥淥prah Winfrey鈥 and asked voters to elect 鈥渕y fellow negress鈥 鈥 Abrams 鈥 governor.

Florida voters got similar calls about Gillum earlier in the election cycle.

Late in the race, Trump鈥檚 campaign pushed the envelope too far with an offensive campaign ad.

CNN rejected the聽, that portrayed migrants seeking asylum as murderers and criminals. It spliced footage of migrants walking toward the U.S. southern border with video featuring a man who killed a police officer saying he wanted to kill more.

While CNN聽refused to air the ad, NBC and Fox News both ran it on their networks. After a backlash,聽NBC, Fox News and Fox Business all pulled the ad.

But Trump tweeted the ad, a move that drew praise from former Ku Klux Klan leader and聽career antisemite and racist David Duke.

鈥淕o Trump Go!鈥 Duke tweeted Nov. 2. 鈥淵our Midterm Ad is a masterpiece personifying the insanity of our immigration Policy. Bravo Trump!鈥

On Tuesday, Duke took part in a live election night podcast.

Now, with the election over, the alt-right, neo-Nazis and assorted racists who became engaged by the midterm elections are looking to keep that enthusiasm going.

And they are lobbying for personnel changes in the Trump team.

From Anglin at the Daily Stormer to provocateur Ann Coulter to Fuentes, alt-righters, neo-Nazis and the far right want Trump to tap Kobach for his administration.

鈥淗e is a solid, solid guy, and I think it is better he be in the administration instead of governor of an irrelevant state like Kansas, where no people even live,鈥 Anglin wrote Tuesday morning.

Spencer鈥檚 National Policy Institute, a white nationalist hate group, is already taking aim at potential 2020 Democratic candidates. In a non-bylined essay posted Tuesday evening, NPI predicted California Sen. Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee to take on Trump.

鈥淭hat all red-blooded American men will recoil in horror at the prospect of a President Harris will be a feature, not a bug, of her appeal during the primary process,鈥 the essay says.

It looks like the movement Trump energized will be involved on the national political scene for a while.

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