Welcome to the 772nd original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing John Cox, the Republican nominee to be the Governor of California. His prior political experience was to run a losing campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois in 2000, and for U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2002. He also was the first Republican to announce a presidential campaign in 2008, and got all of 10 votes in the Iowa caucuses.
Cox got the endorsement of Donald Trump in 2018, which around the country was the kiss of death… but in California? Why, would you adopt a staunch anti-immigration policy in one of the states calling the most for reform? He was already a dead man walking, from an electoral standpoint. Making matters worse, in the final months of the campaign in August of 2018, John Cox compared long lines at the DMV to the Holocaust.
“You know, I met a Holocaust survivor in Long Beach. He survived concentration camps, and he said this was worse. He’s 90 years old and he had to wait four hours down in Long Beach. Can you imagine that?”
A savvy political campaign might be able to spin their way out of that. John Cox does not run savvy campaigns, as this is what his campaign spokesman came up with to try to “fix” things:
”John isn’t saying it was worse than the Holocaust. The guy didn’t say it was worse than the Holocaust. He was saying that it reminded him of pre-war Germany when Jews had to wait in lines to be processed.”
SEE? FIXED IT.
After bizarrely ignoring all of California’s major cities on the campaign trail, and instead, trying to rally his followers at places as scenic as a Costco gas station (and being asked to please leave), Cox only got 38% of the vote in California against Gavin Newsom. We’re pretty sure he isn’t going to make another state-wide run for office again.
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