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“I am running for Governor of Missouri because we must have justice. We must have security in our elections. We must have children who can grow up safe, healthy, and happy,” Unsicker said in the speech, arguing that “Missouri’s democracy has lost its way.”
Unsicker dropped out of the race for Missouri attorney general last month. Missouri House Democrats then ousted Unsicker from their caucus after she made an antisemitic attack against her former Democratic opponent, Elad Gross, a former assistant state attorney general who is Jewish.
The attack followed a bizarre string of controversies on social media. In two separate tweet threads, Unsicker posted a photo of herself with Charles Johnson, a right wing activist whom the Anti-Defamation League condemns as a “Holocaust denier and alt-right troll” who asserted in a since-deleted 2017 Reddit post that the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust was false.