You thought JD Vance was the only weirdo in the GOP? Think again. The NRSC’s 2024 slate is packed with weird Republican Senate candidates nationwide, jeopardizing their chances of retaking the Senate. These candidates have already made too many eyebrow-raising statements — and their offbeat rants suggest they’re more interested in pursuing strange agendas than addressing the real concerns of everyday Americans. American Bridge 21st Century has compiled a list of these Senate candidates’ most bizarre moments:
Arizona
- Kari Lake claimed in her book that she dreamt that Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder, abducted and attempted to kill her.
- “He looked like Ron Howard amidst a mid-life crisis,” she wrote.
- Lake bizarrely claimed “they start race wars in election years.”
- Lake weirdly compared herself to Moses.
- Lake repeatedly claims she’s the duly-elected governor of Arizona, despite losing in 2020.
- Lake told voters to “strap on a Glock” for the 2024 election.
- Lake said hairdressers and barbers should use the “weapon” in their hand to talk politics to their clients.
Wisconsin
- Eric Hovde went on a weird rant about how he was “fortunate” that he wasn’t born with deformities or as the son of a prostitute.
- “You know, I always say I could be born in the slums of Mexico City to a prostitute who, you know, is doing tricks while I’m a young boy sleeping under her bed and being born deformed, or being in India, and some of the things I’ve seen or witnessed. So I, I always thought, you know, I had been very fortunate.”
- Hovde said he should’ve been born a few hundred years ago so that he could be a viking and “sack Constantinople, you know?”
- “I should have been born a few hundred years ago. You know, my Viking heritage. I probably should have been rowing across the North Sea, getting ready to go, you know, sack Constantinople, you know?”
- Hovde did a “cold plunge” in a frozen lake to try and beat the overwhelming carpetbagger allegations against him (it didn’t work).
Texas
- Ted Cruz liked porn tweets from his official Twitter account.
- Cruz awkwardly elbowed his wife Heidi Cruz in the face after dropping out of the presidential race in 2016.
- Cruz is obsessed with queso and said that “queso is made to be scooped up with tortilla chips, dribbling down your chin.”
Florida
- Rick Scott weirdly got fired up about Chinese garlic and called it a threat to national security.
- Things got strange for Rick Scott when protestors confronted him while he was working at a donut shop.
- Scott wanted to drug test all welfare recipients while the state of Florida deemed it unconstitutional.
Montana
- Tim Sheehy wrote in his book Mudslingers about losing his virginity in the back seat of his 1998 Chevy Tahoe and considers the vehicle as a member of the family.
- “I learned to drive in that car, lost my virginity in the back seat, and hit a deer late one night on my way home. I still have that car to this day, and I can’t imagine ever giving it up. It’s almost like a member of the family.” [Mudslingers, p.148-9 – Tim Sheehy]
- Sheehy weirdly made up a story about a gunshot wound to avoid a potential military investigation.
Virginia
- Hung Cao claimed witchcraft is happening in California and is worried about it coming to Virginia.
- Cao blamed the Baltimore bridge tragedy on racial equity.
Ohio
- Bernie Moreno said that women don’t actually need abortions, just someone to lift heavy things such as strollers for them.
- Moreno thinks that abortion should be regulated like alcohol.
Pennsylvania
- Dave McCormick repeatedly says weird things like, “like most Pennsylvanians, I’m divorced.”
New Mexico
- Domenici campaigned in front of an “Appeal To Heaven Flag” – a symbol for White Christian nationalism.
Published: Aug 2, 2024