david bitter very narrowly beat david duke to come in second in that primary. that got him into the run aif. that s how david vitter got to congress. the serving governor of louisiana mike foster was revealed by grand jury to buy david duke s racist mailing list of louisiana mote e voters for his lae la gubernatorial run. thavgs a big scandal in 1989. that was the same year as he was describing himself to roll call as somebody who agreed with david duke on all the issues but who could do a bet erp job getting elected than david duke himself could. it s not like steve skalise dnt know who david duke was. and then three years later, he s speaking at david duke s group. and the republicans in congress have decided to let him be the guy who replaces eric canter in the house leadership because they say, oh steve skalise
30, just under 30 actually to force the vote to a second ballot. 20 s not going to do it. they need 25, 26. if they only have 20, john boehner is going to be the next speaker of the house. right. but they say there would be symbolism enforcing this to go to a second vote which apparent apparentlyapparent apparently has not happened since 1923, i looked it up 1923 we had 111 million people living in the united states. and i think the price of gas was like 20 cents a gallon. right. it would be a big deal if they actually did force it to a second ballot. i think that s something boehner s team wants to avoid. i spoke with staffers in that office as well. they think they won t actually go to that ballot. they said to me we feel confident but i keep saying eric canter was confident the morning of his primary and look what happened there. they re taking this seriously. seems like they do have like you said these are conservatives who think he s a rino republican in
david duke to come in second in that primary. that got him into the run aif. that s how david vitter got to congress. the serving governor of louisiana mike foster was revealed by grand jury to buy david duke s racist mailing list of louisiana mote e voters for his lae la gubernatorial run. thavgs a big scandal in 1989. that was the same year as he was describing himself to roll call as somebody who agreed with david duke on all the issues, but who could do a bet erp job getting elected than david duke himself could. it s not like steve skalise dnt know who david duke was. and then three years later, he s speaking at david duke s group. and the republicans in congress have decided to let him be the guy who replaces eric canter in the house leadership because
leadership before, don t you have to now that david duke is demanding that he stays? i mean, are the republicans keeping steve skalise in their leadership replacing eric canter? are they replacing him with david duke without the baggage? because david duke will release more names of people he s worked with over the years unless steve skalise gets to keep that job? is that why they re keeping steve skalise in his job? it seems ridiculous? that he would get to determine who gets to be in the leadership of congress because he s able to make a threat like that. david duke gets to decide that? itsomes ridiculous. one way you could diffuse any suspicion about that and his ability to make threats about this, this implicit blackmail of lord knows how many members of congress, one way to take this threat off the table would just by e be to say hey, yeah, ask him.
potentially big story involving the third-ranking republican in the house of representatives at a speech that he apparently gave in front of a white supremists organization 12 years ago. he was elected to the house in a special election back in the e 2008. after that he quickly established himself as one of the party s leading voices on capitol hill. earlier this year eric canter s shocking downfall set off a shocking reaction. earlier this year skalise was elected to be the new house majority, the third highest position with just two rungs before house speaker. what nobody knew is this. in may, 2002 when he was still a member of the lae la state laej e legislature, he was the featured speaker of a workshop founded by david duke. he s a one-time grand wizard of the nightknights of the klu klux