https://heartlandsignal.com/2024/06/03/minnesota-gop-nominates-most-unhinged-tinfoil-hat-senate-candidate-of-2024-cycle-royce-white/he Minnesota GOP has endorsed former basketball player and reactionary media figure Royce White to try and unseat Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D).
But the move, which will certainly play towards the party’s main base, could prove ineffective at actually winning an election: White has a long history of antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ sentiments, conspiracy theories and misogyny. Additionally, the one-time NBA player is considered a protege of Trump whisperer and far-right mogul Steve Bannon and hosts a show on Real America’s Voice, the same channel Bannon broadcasts his podcasts from.
And now, after a vote at the Minnesota GOP convention on May 19, 67% of convention goers selected White as their nominee for the senate.
White’s only other electoral experience was in 2022, when he attempted to unseat congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN). However, he lost the Republican primary to Cicely Davis by almost 11 percentage points.
Before pivoting to the Republican Party, White was a prominent Minneapolis activist during the 2020 George Floyd protests. Since then, White became invested in the ideological messaging of right-wing “intellectuals” like Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.
“His current politics could be described as tinfoil hat populism,” the journalist Eamon Whalen wrote in his definitive profile of White.
“He believes that the Democrats, Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping, the CCP, non-MAGA Republicans, George Soros, ‘millennial purple-haired white liberal women,’ ‘the Church of LGBTQ,’ the National Basketball Association, and various government agencies all act on behalf of the same ‘global corporate community,’” Whalen explained in Mother Jones.