Black GOP Lawmaker Responds To Heckler Calling Him ‘Racist’ While Campaigning For Trump | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Mairead Elordi.

    A black Republican lawmaker from Texas responded to a heckler who accused him of being "racist" as he campaigned for former President Trump in Iowa on Monday.

    Texas state Representative Wesley Hunt (R) appeared unfazed by the disruptive audience member, who accused Hunt of "degrading himself" and "turning his back" on black people as he spoke at a caucus site near Des Moines.

    "How can a black man do this on Martin Luther King day?" the man, who appeared to be black as well, shouted at Hunt as he walked toward him. "How can a black man stand here and talk to us about a racist?"

    Members of the audience quickly grabbed the man and escorted him out.

    "I was saying," Hunt continued after the heckler was removed. "I come from a district in Houston, Texas, that's a majority white district, and I won by 30 points."

    "Because on days like this I realize I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character," Hunt said, invoking a line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

    "And when I walk into rooms like this, I don't see race, color, or creed, I see my fellow Americans that must join together in the fight to save our country," Hunt said. "And the same loyalty that we have to you is the same loyalty that I have seen from President Trump."


    Later on Monday evening, Hunt posted about the incident on social media, saying an "enraged man" attempted to stop his speech shouting Trump was "racist."

    "You know, the same tired trope we've heard over and over again," Hunt posted on X Monday evening.

    "But on this day, of all days, Martin Luther King Day, the people of Iowa, just like President Trump, judge me not by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character. The anti-Trump movement is in full blown meltdown," Hunt wrote.

    Hunt is a West Point graduate and flew Apache helicopters in the U.S. Army before running for office.

    Trump won the Iowa caucuses Monday in a record landslide victory, garnering 51% of the vote with 99% of votes counted, according to the Associated Press.

    The former president's win was about 30 points ahead of the second place finisher, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who got just over 21% of the vote. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley came in third with 19%.

    Trump's performance in Iowa gives him a strong early primary lead and brings him closer to clinching the GOP presidential nomination, although a formal nominee will not be declared for several months.

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Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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