California Republican voters are most likely going to re-elect a man indicted for massive campaign fraud, and they will give him more campaign funds to misuse because they only thing that matters is putting those people in their place.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) holds an 8-point lead over his Democratic opponent despite being indicted on charges of misusing campaign funds, according to a new poll.
A Survey USA poll published Monday found that among likely voters in California’s 50th District who were surveyed, 47 percent plan to vote for Hunter, compared to 39 percent who favor Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar, if they are the only two candidates on the ballot. President Trump won the district by 15 points in 2016.
Among Republicans, 77 percent of likely voters said that despite his indictment, they would vote for Hunter if the election was held today, the poll found.
Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted last week after being charged with misusing at least $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses.
Hunter is accused of using the funds to pay for trips to Italy and Hawaii, his family’s dental work, his children’s tuition and travel for relatives, among other personal expenses.
Hunter has dismissed the charges as politically motivated, calling them the product of a “witch hunt” carried out by the Department of Justice.
The excuse that the Obama/Clinton Deep State manufactured these charges, despite the Trump regime controlling the Justice Department, is good enough for more than three-quarters of Republicans.
Besides, his opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, is Muslim and related to one of the 1972 Munich terrorists who died 16 years before he was born, so that's apparently infinitely much worse than being a white Republican indicted on federal charges, who will almost certainly be convicted and tossed from the House before November 2020.
To be fair, Hunter was going to win by a comfortable double-digit margin before the indictment. Now he'll end up winning by a comfortable single-digit margin instead, because that's how politics works in America.
Better to be a white felon than a person of color with no criminal record in America after all.
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