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White supremacist David Duke registered Friday for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race, saying he was partially spurred by the recent shooting deaths of three law enforcement officers by a black man.
“I believe my time has come,” the former Ku Klux Klan leader said after submitting his paperwork for the ballot. He added: “The people of this country, the patriotic, decent, God-fearing people of this country are now right with me.”
Duke’s candidacy comes one day after Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination for president, and Duke said he’s espoused principles for years that are similar to the themes Republicans are now supporting in Trump’s campaign, on issues such as immigration and trade.
He said Americans are “embracing the core issues I have fought for my entire life.”
In a lengthy speech, Duke talked of the “massive racial discrimination going on right now against European Americans,” and what he called a biased media working against him. He called the Black Lives Matter movement a “terrorist organization.”
In Metairie, a predominantly white and Republican stronghold in the New Orleans area where Duke once was elected to the state House of Representatives, Maria Fox, a 68-year-old housewife, was pleased that Duke is running.
“Many, many years ago he woke up the consciousness of this country and this state just like Trump is doing to the country,” she said.
Duke reacted angrily to a question about whether he remained involved with the KKK. He described it as “a nonviolent group.”
Duke pleaded guilty in 2002 to bilking his supporters and cheating on his taxes. He spent a year in federal prison, but later denied any wrongdoing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-kkk-leader-david-duke-runs-for-senate-my-time-has-come/2016/07/22/7786e6f4-5075-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_story.html
