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Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed faces fresh campaign turbulence after Fox News Digital unearthed a series of racially charged social media posts from his communications director, Roxie Richner, dating to 2019 and 2020.
Richner directed sustained criticism at White women across multiple posts on X, then called Twitter, calling them "policy failures" and accusing them of endangering Black lives during the unrest that followed George Floyd's death.
What Richner Posted On May 26, 2020, the day after Floyd's death, Richner wrote that White women were "making shit up trying to get Black people killed" and accused them of failing to take action against police violence.
In a separate post the same day, she wrote that "all white women are policy failures." During the height of the Minneapolis rioting on June 4, 2020, Richner mocked White residents of Ann Arbor who messaged her about looting, writing that she would "drop names" if they continued, and accusing them of "showing their racism." Following the November 2020 presidential election, Richner credited "POC youth" for carrying Democratic candidate Joe Biden's victory, adding that she was "very disappointed in white youth and white women." In 2019, she criticized White Americans who defended then-candidate Biden's comments she described as racist.
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