After wishing Barack Obama would die of mad cow disease, praising Hitler, spreading covid misinformation on Facebook and calling for US Attorney General Merrick Garland to be executed, Carl Paladino lost his party’s nomination tonight to New York state Republican Party Chair Nick Langworthy. As Raw Story reported earlier today, Paladino’s campaign was most recently advised by staunch Trump supporter Elise Stefanik’s staff. As reporter Bob Brigham noted: The New York Times reported in June, “Carl P. Paladino, a Republican running for a House seat in Western New York, praised Adolf Hitler last year for inspiring his followers, describing the fascist dictator as ‘the kind of leader we need today.’ Mr. Paladino did not specifically condone Hitler’s actions in his remarks, which he made in a 2021 radio interview that was unearthed on Thursday. But he said he was impressed by how the German leader and head of the Nazi Party ‘aroused the crowd’ in his speeches and suggested that Republicans in New York and Washington ought to emulate his approach.”
via rawstory: Hitler-praising Carl Paladino loses GOP primary for Congress — and ‘deals a blow’ to Elise Stefanik