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NCGOP Chairman Tries To Link Hillary Clinton To The KKK

It’s not surprising the new chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party is attacking Hillary Clinton on Twitter. What is surprising are his efforts to link Clinton to the Ku Klux Klan.

On July 22, Hasan Harnett tweeted, "Say No to Hillary Clinton and the liberal takeover." The next day he mused, "Say No to the Democrat lies liberal agenda." All stuff you might expect from North Carolina’s top Republican organizer.

But both messages also included two photos merged together, one side an unflattering picture of Hillary Clinton, the other a black and white photo of a Klan rally complete with a burning cross and the following text:

The KKK was created as the militant wing of the Democrat Party in order to fight Republican reconstruction.

Now here’s the thing about those words, "They are true," says political scientist Michael Bitzer of Cawtaba College, "the KKK was closely associated with the Democratic party." But Bitzer quickly adds that’s if you’re talking about Democrats from the turn of the last century.

Bitzer says it’s a monumental stretch to tie mainstream Democrats over the past 60 years to the Klan. Take these two laws for example, "the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed by a Democratic president." One Lyndon Banes Johnson. 

And of course, there’s America’s first African-American president, Democrat Barack Obama.

Harnett, from Cabarrus County, is the first African-American chairman of the state’s Republican party. He’s known as being a grass roots organizer.

The tweets include the hashtags  "black lives matter" and "Christian lives matter."

But Michael Bitzer is curious if these tweets will cause a backlash with both voters and other key Republicans in the state.

Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.