Presidential hopeful Julián Castro and unabashed racist Iowa congressman Steve King duked it out on Twitter on Friday.
Rep. King instigated Castro by claiming Castro supported federal funding “to abort men’s babies.”
Castro fired back, tagging Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey and asking him why the social media platform hadn’t banned King, who he called a white supremacist.
Castro later appeared on MSNBC and briefly commented on the feud. He said that on the campaign trail, he visited King’s congressional district in Iowa and said that his constituents have had enough.
In January, King was stripped of his House committee assignments after he defended white supremacy in an interview with the New York Times. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?,” King asked the Times. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”
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Fernando covers Texas politics and government at the Texas Signal. Before joining the Signal, Fernando spent two years at the Houston Chronicle and previously interned at Houston’s NPR station News 88.7. He is a graduate of the University of Houston, Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, and enjoys reading, highlighting things, and arguing on social media. You can follow him on Twitter at @fernramirez93 or email at fernando@texassignal.com
