'Political jihad is their game,' the poster's tagline read. 'If you don't agree with their socialist ideology, you're racist.'
The Cook County Democratic Party on Sunday condemned the since-deleted post and called for an apology."On Friday, the Illinois Republican County Chairman's Association posted a racist and inflammatory attack on Facebook directed at four Democratic congresswomen," the political party wrote in a"The post perpetuates the recent attacks by President Trump, promoting lies and racism to alienate immigrants, women, and people of color.
Tim Schneider, head of the Illinois Republican Party, also"strongly" condemned and distanced himself from the post in aearlier on Sunday."I strongly condemn evoking race or religion as the basis for political disagreement," he said."The recent social media post coming from the IRCCA does not reflect my values or the Illinois Republican Party's values."
Shaw then explained that the group"has a multi-stage, approval process for all social media posts," that they will be reevaluating following the incident to ensure that"any content posted in the future represented the 'big-tent' nature of the Republican Party."
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