“Anointed Of God” Rep Won’t Primary GOP Senator

The Washington Examiner reports:

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) has opted not to mount a primary challenge against Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) next year in what is already a crowded Republican field to take down an incumbent who once voted to convict President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial.

“Current engagement in the House being incredibly significant, it may be ultimately more beneficial to the republic that I remain in service to the MAGA America First agenda as a senior Republican in the House of Representatives,” Higgins said in a statement Thursday.

Higgins, a member of the Freedom Caucus, insisted he would be “virtually assured” the nomination based on polling but suggested Cassidy was likely to still lose his primary.

Read the full article. In his letter below, Higgins declares that he’s been “anointed of God.” Last year the Congressional Black Caucus called for Higgins to be censured for his racist post about Haitian migrants. Higgins, who regularly calls for civil war, has claimed that the FBI operated “ghost buses” of undercover agents to pose as Trump supporters during the Capitol insurrection.

Rep. Clay Higgins claims that groups like the Proud Boys, Oathkeepers and others who were at the Capitol on J6 were persuaded and incited to commit acts of violence by undercover FBI agents who talked them into it on online forums and entrapped them. pic.twitter.com/BbpjIJiYsc

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