The National Republican Congressional Committee is still raising funds for California Republican House candidate Ted Howze despite the publication of racist and bigoted posts and conspiracy theories on Howze’s personal social media pages, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Howze is still listed as part of the NRCC’s “Young Guns” candidate recruitment program, which “identifies candidates across the country who embody the principles of the House Republican Conference and show promise of running a successful campaign,” according to its website.
In the social media posts, Howze accused Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, of being child molesters.
“Surely they understand that pedophiles are ‘dreamers’ too,” Howze wrote.
He also claimed that Muslims cannot be good American citizens: “The Western world and Christian Nations should all be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS!”
When previous racist and bigoted posts were unearthed in early May, Howze claimed he did not write them.
Those posts were deleted, but the recently uncovered posts were still available as recently as Tuesday, Politico reported.