Kim Crockett says homeless people being gifted bags of candy to vote
During an interview with conservative radio host Mitch Berg last year, Minnesota secretary of state candidate Kim Crockett (R) suggested that homeless people are being gifted bags of candy and driven in golf carts in exchange for voting.
During an interview with conservative radio host Mitch Berg last year, Minnesota secretary of state candidate Kim Crockett (R) suggested that homeless people are being gifted bags of candy and driven in golf carts in exchange for voting.
“I’ll tell you, we hand out bags of candy,” Crockett said on an Oct. 19, 2021 episode of Berg’s program on the Northern Alliance Radio Network. “I’m over at a friend’s house right now, he witnessed it. Homeless people in Minneapolis get bags of candy, and [they] drive them with a golf cart into the precinct.”
NEW: Kim Crockett, the GOP nominee for Secretary of State in Minnesota, said (without evidence) that homeless people are being given bags of candy and driven via golf cart to polling locations:
“I’m over at a friend’s house right now, he witnessed it!” pic.twitter.com/J5u5PSqOcB
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) October 24, 2022
Crockett has continuously spouted false or inflammatory rhetoric about voting. Earlier in the interview, Crockett alluded that conservatives in Wisconsin were discouraged from voting because polls in 2020 projected Biden too high. In a different interview, she criticized the “flabby American voter” who uses provisional ballots and proposed that the government should not give them out.
She has also baselessly accused immigrants of selling voter ballots to terrorist organizations and expressed her doubts of non-English-speaking and disabled people voting.
Crockett is facing incumbent Democrat Steve Simon, whom she previously insulted with an antisemetic video.
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