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James Allsup went from a ‘pro-white’ group to a post in the Washington state GOP, and no one in the party seems to have tried to stop him.
By Kelly Weill
An affiliate of a “pro-white” group who marched in Charlottesville
last year was elected to a Republican Party post in Washington state
last week, part of his campaign to take over the GOP for the alt-right.
James Allsup, 22, attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,
Virginia, where white supremacists chanted anti-Semitic slogans and one
allegedly drove a car into a crowd, killing a protester and injuring
more. Allsup was filmed marching with Identity Evropa, an anti-immigrant
alt-right group. Fallout over the rally led to Allsup stepping down as
president of the Washington State University College Republicans, a
group he once boasted of taking over. Now he claims he’s on the way to
taking over the local GOP.
Immediately after his election Allsup said he was attending a Spokane GOP dinner headlined by former Rep. Jason Chaffetz
(who did not return The Daily Beast’s request for comment), and claimed
he or an associate were scheduled for a private meeting with an unnamed
congressperson.
On June 2, Allsup posted a picture of a
certificate on Facebook. “As of today I am officially an elected
official in the state of Washington and Republican party,” he wrote.
“Cool!”
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