Nazi to become Republican candidate for Congress
White supremacist Art Jones says the Holocaust is ‘the biggest lie in history’

A Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi is set to run as the Republican Party nominee in a congressional race in Illinois.
Art Jones, a frequent guest speaker at white supremacist rallies and a former leader of the American Nazi Party, is the sole candidate to put himself forward for the Republican nomination in the state’s third congressional district, a safe Democratic seat south-west of Chicago.
The expiry of the nomination deadline means the 70-year-old retiree will stand unopposed in the Republican primary on 20 March and enter the race to dethrone the seat’s current incumbent, Democrat Daniel Lipinski.
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Jones’ campaign website “lays out [his] unapologetically racist and anti-Semitic views”, The Washington Post reports.
A section on the Holocaust describes the genocide as “the biggest, blackest, lie in history”, while a section on immigration claims that “any two-legged vagabond from any Third-world, non-white, or non-Christian country is given preference whether they arrived legally or illegally”.
Jones has run, unsuccessfully, for various local offices since the 1970s, says the Chicago Sun-Times. He has sought the Republican nomination for the third congressional district seven times, losing heavily to more mainstream candidates in each instance.
In 2016, he was disqualified from running after a lawyer working for the Illinois Republican Party identified mistakes on his nomination documents.
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The state committee has been unable to find any grounds to disqualify Jones this time around, but chairman Tim Schneider told the Sun-Times that the Illinois Republican Party “strongly oppose” Jones’s beliefs and his candidacy.
The feeling appears to be mutual. Despite leading a group called the America First Committee - open to “any white American citizen of European, non-Jewish descent” , the Sun-Times reports - Jones is no fan of the Republican Party or the current president.
At a National Socialist rally in Kentucky last year, Jones denounced Donald Trump as having surrounded himself with “hordes of Jews”, including his Jewish -son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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