MERIDIAN, Idaho — On a week when the total U.S. death toll from COVID-19 approached 1 million, Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin staged a get-out-the-vote rally headlined by a radio host who claimed the coronavirus does not exist and called for the execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“You don’t ask permission from Dr. Fauci Mengele to go outside. You ignore him. And you indict him and you try him and you fry him!” said Stew Peters, a Minnesota-based former bounty hunter turned radio host and podcaster, drawing lusty cheers from the crowd of roughly 1,000 at the rally.
McGeachin is running for governor this year as the Donald Trump-endorsed challenger to Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican seeking a second term. With Democrats vastly outnumbered, the question of who will govern Idaho for the next four years will almost certainly be settled by Tuesday’s GOP primary.
The Idaho matchup reflects a national schism in the Republican Party that is pitting traditional conservative politicians against Trump-backed MAGA brawlers such as McGeachin, who, like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, was widely rebuked for addressing the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference in Florida in February. The election may serve as a bellwether for the strength of extremist politics in the Pacific Northwest.
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