Results: This Man Could Be Your Next U.S. Senator

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in California, Patrick Little, is running on a campaign platform blatantly expressing anti-semitic views, including calling for a United States "free from Jews." California's 2018 U.S. Senate election attracted nationwide attention in April 2018, not long after the publication of a poll showing that little-known committed neo-Nazi Little had 18 percent of support among likely primary election voters, second to incumbent Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein with 39 percent. In the SurveyUSA poll, Little — who describes himself as a "white nationalist" — had greater support than four other candidates in the state's open primary. Have you heard about this man?

Little is running on a platform expressing anti-semitic views such as "proposing a government that makes counter-semitism central to all aims of the state, a government of a People, for that people, free from jews, that cannot revoke the right to bear arms, such that this people can remain free from jews, and that forbids all immigration except of biological kin, where no person of jewish origin may live, vacation, or traverse". He has also espoused anti-semitic conspiracy theories, called for racial segregation (white people migrating to all-white "continuity zones" in the United States), and even appeared to threaten the extermination of Jewish people who refuse to voluntarily vacate their government employment. Do you think this man should be excluded from running for a Senate seat?

Little is the third Republican candidate for national office during the 2018 electoral cycle to have expressed openly anti-semitic and racist views. In March, former American Nazi Party leader Arthur Jones ran unopposed in the GOP primary for Illinois' Third U.S. Congressional District, and will represent the party in November's general election. In Wisconsin's First U.S. Congressional District, one of the Republicans seeking to replace retiring House leader Paul Ryan in November is Paul Nehlen, who has described himself as "pro-white" and frequently expresses virulently anti-semitic sentiments on social media. While Little claims to have been "pro-white" his whole life, he also credits Donald Trump's presidential campaign as a process that ultimately led to his "awakening." Do you think the current political climate is responsible for people like these three men gaining ground in the political arena?