Washington, DC — Far-right MAGA extremist and early funder of a social media site with ties to white supremacists, Dan Bishop—who’s running for Attorney General in North Carolina—continues to be a major threat to North Carolinians. This week, PoliticsNC’s Thomas Mills summarized the chaos Rep. Bishop would wreak on the state if he were to be elected AG, writing “In Congress, Bishop allied himself with the most extreme, right-wing members of the House of Representatives. He joined what the Wall Street Journal, no bastion of liberalism, called the Chaos Caucus whose most prominent members include bomb-throwers like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Paul Gosar.”

Mills continues, “Bishop and his band of ‘egotistical performance artists,’ as Karl Rove described them, threatened to let our government default on its debt, supported government shutdowns, ousted a Speaker of the House, and voted against sanctions on Russia. They’ve shown little interest in governing, instead playing to the cheers of their extremist online constituency and flirting with dangerous policies that could seriously damage the economy and credibility of the country.”

Bishop, as Mills says, is a promoter of the Big Lie, reminding readers that he voted against certifying the 2020 election. Mills goes on, “If he’s willing to support overturning an election as a Member of Congress, just think about the damage he could do as attorney general. His role should be protecting North Carolinians, but he’ll almost certainly be siding with his extremist base.”

“Bishop should not be anywhere near the levers of power. The attorney general is a serious position that requires someone committed to the people of North Carolina, not a man seeking applause from the most extreme elements of the internet.”

Mills concludes, “Bishop is no different from the other extremists on the GOP Council of State slate. He was radicalized online and he doesn’t want you to know who he is. He’s deleted his Twitter account where he made his most unhinged posts. Like Robinson and Morrow, he would prefer you don’t look at what he’s said and done in the past, only what he’s saying on the campaign trail.”

“Instead, he’ll pretend, as will the rest of the GOP field, that he’s a traditional conservative when, in reality, he’s waiting to bring the same chaos to North Carolina that he brought to Congress. Dan Bishop would be a disaster for the state.”

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