Arizona Republican Kelli Ward is running second in a three-way primary to replace Sen. Jeff Flake, and she’s decided that embracing Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich is her route to the top. Ward is having Cernovich join her for a campaign bus tour, and when MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt asked about it, this was Ward's explanation:
Mike Cernovich has an audience that we want to reach and that includes Republicans, conservatives, liberals, Democrats, people of all ilks. And so if he’s coming on the bus tour I think he’ll have a voice and he’ll have something that he wants to say.
Yeah, Cernovich is a real pipeline to the liberal Democrats who think Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring out of a pizza restaurant. But while Pizzagate is probably what Cernovich is best known for, he also has deep(ly disgusting) thoughts on rape and how “diversity is code for white genocide.” That’s the crowd Kelli Ward is going for as she tries to peel enough votes away from Joe Arpaio to come out on top.