The Democratic National Committee is looking into domestic violence allegations made against deputy chair Keith Ellison, D-Minn., as voters in his home state go to the polls in Tuesday’s slew of primary elections.
“These allegations recently came to light and we are reviewing them. All allegations of domestic abuse are disturbing and should be taken seriously,” the DNC told NPR in a written statement. The DNC did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner‘s request for comment.
Ellison, who is seeking to become Minnesota’s next attorney general in lieu of his seat in Congress, has vehemently denied that he abused ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan, a Sierra Club organizer, after Monahan’s son took to social media last weekend to write about her claims.
In a Facebook post, Austin Monahan described an almost two-minute long video he allegedly found on his mother’s computer that captured Ellison “dragging my mama off the bed by her feet, screaming and calling her a ‘fucking bitch’ and telling her to get the fuck out of his house.”
“Karen and I were in a long-term relationship which ended in 2016, and I still care deeply for her well-being,” Ellison pushed back via a statement released by his campaign on Sunday. “This video does not exist because I never behaved in this way, and any characterization otherwise is false.”
Ellison announced in June that he would not run for re-election to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, instead launching a bid to become the state’s top lawyer in a five-way race.
