Conservatives rightly lambasted Nancy Pelosi for endorsing Ilhan Omar and appearing with her on viral magazine covers, long after Omar had shown her virulently anti-Semitic stripes. But on Wednesday, Joe Biden did something President Trump proved incapable of: rejecting the support of a bigot widely lauded by the populist wing of his party.
Indeed, Trump has offered his effusive praise to two women who just clinched the Republican nominations for their respective congressional districts: QAnon conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene and Laura Loomer, the self-described “#ProudIslamophobe.”
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