GOP Candidate Refuses To Drop Out After Party Leaders Condemn Report Of Racist Videos

Greene, a businesswoman, finished first in the GOP primary in Georgia’s 14th District by 19 points but failed to win 50% of the vote, leading to a runoff between her and neurosurgeon John Cowan scheduled for August.

Greene’s first-place finish drew startled national headlines due to her close associations with the Qanon movement, which believes there’s a deep state conspiracy to undermine President Trump.

But Greene is only now facing heat from her party’s leaders, not for Qanon, but for hours of Facebook videos, uncovered by Politico, in which she asserts Muslims should not serve in government, calls Jewish Democratic megadonor George Soros a Nazi and compares Black Lives Matter activists to the KKK.

“There is an Islamic invasion into our government offices right now,” Greene said in one of the videos, while in another she claimed black Americans are “held slaves to the Democratic Party.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) both denounced the comments, as did a spokesperson for NRCC Chair, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), who told Politico Emmer is “personally disgusted by this rhetoric and condemns it in the strongest possible terms.”

Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) told Forbes that the comments are “shameful” and that “there is no place for them in our society,” but did not say if he’s supporting a candidate, while a spokesperson for Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) said an endorsement of Cowan was forthcoming.

But Greene pushed back on the condemnations on Wednesday, tweeting, “The Fake News Media, the DC Swamp, and their radical leftist allies see me as a very serious threat. I will not let them whip me into submission.”