NEW JERSEY: GOP House Candidate Says Diversity Is “Un-American Crap” Promoted By Communists [VIDEO]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Seth Grossman’s surprise victory in the Republican primary in New Jersey’s Second Congressional District has brought immediate national scrutiny of the Trump purist from Democrats who see a November victory by Democrat Jeff Van Drew as essential to their plans to seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Washington-based political action committee that is supporting Van Drew has zeroed in on comments that Grossman, an Atlantic County lawyer, made during the sleepy Republican primary campaign, comments mostly overlooked at the time.

“The whole idea of diversity is a bunch of crap and un-American,” Grossman said at a GOP campaign forum held April 21 in Pittsgrove, Salem County. That comment, captured on video, was filmed by American Bridge to the 21st Century, a Washington-based political action committee that monitors Republican candidates.

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“Now what diversity has become, it’s been an excuse by Democrats, communists, and socialists, basically, to say that we’re not all created equal; that some people, if somebody is lesser qualified, they will get a job anyway or they’ll get into college anyway because of the tribe that they’re with, what group, what box they fit into,” Grossman continued in the footage.

After being provided the video, Grossman told The Inquirer by telephone that he stood by those remarks.

“I said it,” the candidate admitted. “I believe in America that each individual should be judged on nothing but his or her talent, character, and hard work. I’m rejecting the whole premise of diversity as a virtue.”