D-Day veteran honored by Trump at SOTU address endorses Republican Duncan Hunter’s Democrat opponent
The former private first class and D-Day veteran endorsed Democratic candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar for California’s 50th Congressional District Monday, a seat currently held by embattled Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter.
The straw that broke the camel’s back for Reilly, according to Campa-Najjar, was Hunter’s latest fundraising email to supporters dated April 9, in which Hunter rehashed false assertions that Campa-Najjar, a Palestinian Mexican American, is tied to radical Islam and is a threat to America’s national security interests, a tactic used repeatedly on the campaign trail last year which critics have labeled as bigoted.
Special guests World War II veterans Joseph Reilly , Irving Locker and Herman Zeitchik are acknowledged during the State of the Union address, at the U.S. Capitol, on February 5. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump honored several veterans at his State of the Union address in February—Reilly was one of them.
The candidate has condemned his grandfather, but Hunter also repeatedly misstated Campa-Najjar’s name throughout the email to include part of his grandfather’s. All were attacks used in last year’s campaign by Hunter and were again used last month.Since becoming a formidable opponent last election cycle, the California Republican has labeled Campa-Najjar a “grave threat to our national security,” warned “radical Muslims are trying to infiltrate the U.S.
Left: Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is running against Congressman Duncan Hunter, speaks to reporters outside the San Diego Federal Courthouse during Hunter's arraignment hearing, on Thursday, August 23, 2018. Right: Hunter speaks to the media before a painting he had had removed is rehung on the U.S. Capitol walls, on January 10, 2017.
Campa-Najjar told Newsweek that before Reilly extended his endorsement, he and the man who parachuted into France in 1944 and later fought in Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge had a phone conversation.
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