House Candidate Hails Proud Boys As “Fighting Antifa”

The Huffington Post reports:

Washington state GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent told supporters at a recent event that the Proud Boys — the all-male, far-right, neo-fascist organization whose leaders were convicted for seditious conspiracy after trying to violently overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021 — are really just a bunch of hooligans who scare progressive Democrats.

“Look, the Proud Boys are the guys who went and fought antifa,” Kent said. “So, the left says they’re terror, I don’t know,” he continued.

“It’s just, it’s a group to scare left-wing people. It’s like saying antifa to a bunch of Republicans. So really, it’s a scare tactic.” A Kent campaign spokesperson did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment about why the Republican is downplaying the dangers of a violent, extremist, neo-fascist organization.

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Kemp is running against Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, whom he lost to by 1.6 points in 2022.

He last appeared here when he declared that he would be keeping a $8600 donation from a Capitol rioter facing felony assault charges. 

We first heard from Kent in 2022 when he gave an interview to a white nationalist Nazi podcaster.

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