We publicly asked a Minn. Congressional candidate if he thought Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. He dodged the question multiple times.

Royce White, the former professional basketball player running to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), refused to say if President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election after being asked multiple times on Twitter Thursday morning.

After White replied to a tweet written by The Nation’s Sports Editor Dave Zirin last week, Heartland Signal’s Twitter account asked the Minnesota Congressional candidate three separate times if he thought Biden is the legitimate president. White repeatedly dodged the question, with responses ranging from calling Biden a “Globalist” to asking if Heartland Signal believes in God.

When first asked if he thought Biden is the legitimately elected president, White instead sent three off-topic, sometimes incoherent tweets. His stated beliefs included that Biden is a globalist, that an unspecified entity attempted “to hypnotize people with WWE politics” and that the Democratic Party “have used Black people and Black history as the calling card for Intersectionality… which has very little interest in Black America.”

I think Joe Biden is a Globalist. I think they’ve made a blantant attack on the working class and tried to hypnotize people with WWE politics.

— Royce White (@Highway_30) March 3, 2022

I think Democrats have used Black people and Black history as the calling card for Intersectionality… which has very little interest in Black America.

— Royce White (@Highway_30) March 3, 2022

Heartland Signal then asked White if he thought the 2020 election was legitimate, free and fair. White replied that Heartland Signal was trying to “dictate the terms of this conversation” and was acting in anti-Black bias.

Oh… You believe you get to dictate the terms of this conversation. You get to tell a Black man what he can and can’t talk about? The petulance of you White liberals insults me.

— Royce White (@Highway_30) March 3, 2022

The Heartland Signal account said it’s an important question for any potential member of Congress to respond to. White was asked a third time if he thought the 2020 election was legitimate and Biden won, or if the election was illegitimate and former President Donald Trump won. White again claimed anti-Black bias and said the newsroom was “trying to win through misinformation and mainstream influence.”

“The charade is almost up,” White wrote. “Righteous and Divine wars are and will be fought. Do you believe in God?”

You’re still doing it. White liberalism has become arrogant amongst many other things… which is why you now trying to win through misinformation and mainstream influence. The charade is almost up. Righteous and Divine wars are and will be fought. Do you believe in God?

— Royce White (@Highway_30) March 3, 2022

White originally responded to Zirin over a clip Heartland Signal posted on Feb. 22 of an interview White gave to InfoWars. In it, White said Christians, especially in the GOP, should personally fight “righteous and divine wars” which “need to be fought physically, possibly, out in the streets” instead of waiting for divine intervention.

Former pro basketball player Royce White just announced a run for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s seat (MN-5).

On InfoWars, Royce said Christians, particularly in the GOP, must accept “righteous and divine wars” that “need to be fought physically, possibly, out in the streets.” pic.twitter.com/QfMWso4Gvh

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) February 22, 2022

A two-time National Basketball League Canada champion and the 2017 NBL Canada MVP, White first entered political activism in 2019 when he spoke out against the Uyghur genocide while giving a Big3 postgame interview. He also became one of the first former professional athletes to take part and organize in peaceful protests in Minneapolis, Minn during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. And despite a brief stint in the National Basketball Association, he became one of the first mental advocates in the sport by openly speaking about his generalized anxiety disorder.

However, he falsely claimed Omar is not an American in a video released last month announcing his candidacy. Omar gained U.S. citizenship when she was 17 years old after immigrating as a Somalian refugee five years prior in 1995. Also in the video, White repeatedly mentions fighting globalism, a term repeatedly used as a far-right dog whistle.

After Zirin responded to White’s original response, White defended his appearances on far-right television programs like InfoWars and Steve Bannon’s Real American Voice show by saying it’s a matter of standing against the establishment.

“The arrogance of elitism and a global corporate community that is unethical, which is in fact what Alex Jones and Steve Bannon have been talking about for many years,” White wrote. “Just like I have.”

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