Taking advantage of the growing normalisation of the far-right, some white supremacists are testing the limits of the US electoral system
During the lead-up to the November 2018 midterm elections, no one could deny that neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, who was running for office in the third district of Illinois, had almost no chance of winning.
The overwhelmingly unlikelihood of Jones besting his Democratic contender, and the Republican Party’s swift condemnation of Jones, did little to deter the then 70-year-old retiree, though. His official website hosts a section questioning the Holocaust, and in that section was an embedded document titled “The ‘Holocaust’ Racket”.
Jones indeed lost, but he raked in an estimated 26 percent of the vote when Election Day arrived, local media reported at the time. At the time of publication, Jones had not replied to TRT World’s request for a comment.
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