Gregory Cheadle is leaving the GOP to pursue 2020 Congress Campaign as Independent.
Gregory Cheadle, the man whom Trump referred to as"my African American" back in 2016, said he is leaving the Republican party due to his frustration with what he called the party's"pro-white agenda." The five-time Congressional candidate joined the Republican party in 2001, but said he'd be continue on as an independent.
The real estate broker from Redding, California, told PBS Newshour that he believes"President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme," but is even more concerned with the Republican party's willingness to defend his actions. Cheadle said the issue came to a head when Republicans were quick to defend Trump's tweets in July telling four female Representatives who are U.S. citizens to go back where they came from.
Trump at a campaign rally in Sacramento, CA on June 1, 2016. Later that week, at a rally in Redding, CA, Trump referred to Gregory Cheadle as"my African American.""They were sidestepping the people of color issues and saying that, 'No, its not racist,'" he said about members of the Republican party."And I thought this is a classic case of whites not seeing racism because they want to put blinders on and make it about something else.
Cheadle announced that he will be running for the House of Representatives in 2020 as an independent in California's first congressional district, which has had a Republican representative since 2013. Critics of Cheadle and the Republican party have pointed out that his track record as a Trump supporter challenges his credibility in the upcoming campaign.
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