Appearing on MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin late Tuesday morning, left-wing Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart accused anyone voting for Republicans in the midterm elections of being “okay” with “racism.” Asked later if some Democrats running in red states were “perhaps a little left of the center,” he dismissed such concerns and insisted they were just living their “truth.”
Reacting to a tweet from Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp labeling his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams “too extreme” after the Black Panthers Party announced their support for her, Capehart ranted: “I shouldn’t be shocked anymore by the overt racism that we have seen either from the President of the United States or Republicans who are trying to win election. And that tweet that he sent out ranks up there.”– READ MORE