ICYMI Washington Free Beacon: “Boring White Man Cal Cunningham Is Exactly What Chuck Schumer Wanted for NC Senate Candidate”

June 17, 2020
For Immediate Release 

Raleigh NC- Yesterday, the Washington Free Beacon wrote and article highlight how Cal Cunningham is bought and paid for by Chuck Schumer. Cunningham refuses to give straight answers about his positions because he will be a rubber stamp for Chuck Schumer's radical agenda. 

Washington Free Beacon Boring White Man Cal Cunningham Is Exactly What Chuck Schumer Wanted for NC Senate Candidate

Excerpts from the article. 

Schumer and Democratic Party leaders certainly have a thing for Cunningham. Perhaps because he's a boring white man, or because they see him as the most amenable to doing what he's told.

Cunningham declined, for example, to take a firm position on impeachment back in December 2019, saying only that "we ought to be very deeply troubled" by President Trump's "deeply, deeply troubling" actions, adding that "the facts are pretty deeply troublesome."

Schumer's not-so-subtle preference for Cunningham became a source of controversy in the Democratic primary. For some, it was an indication that the Democratic Party's commitment to racial and gender diversity extends only so far. Also seeking the nomination was state senator Erica Smith, a former Boeing engineer attempting to become just the third African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

"Sen. Schumer, for whatever reason, did not want an African American running for Senate in North Carolina," Smith said during a campaign event in January. She added that Democrats deserved a candidate who wouldn't be "beholden to Chuck Schumer and New York millionaires and billionaires." 

And the North Carolina race isn't the only one in which the DSCC has been accused of trying to undermine qualified black candidates. A group representing thousands of black Democrats in Texas recently accused party leaders of trying to "cheat" state senator Royce West of a chance to become the state's first African-American U.S. senator.

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