Senate independent rival smears GOP Deb Fischer’s team as ‘Hitler youth frat boys’ in NY Democrat fundraising appeal

A Senate independent challenger smeared his Republican rival’s staff as “Hitler Youth frat boys” during a meeting with potential Democratic donors on Friday, amid growing concern about rising political rhetoric channeling violence this election cycle.

Independent candidate Dan Osborn, in a Zoom meeting with the NY-based Democratic donor community, denounced Nebraska GOP Sen. Deb Fischer His campaign team allegedly included Nazi-level lackeys, according to video footage obtained exclusively by The Post.

“As long as Sen. Fischer’s campaign has been going, he’s never had competition, so his staff and his campaign staff are a bunch of Hitler Youth kids, to be honest with you,” Osborn told attendees during the New York call. Friends Group.

“It’s a little concerning who’s around him,” he emphasized.

The inflammatory remarks followed repeated statements over the years. Comparisons of Democrats and left-wing experts on the debate between Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and former President Donald Trump, who tops the 2024 list.

This discourse led to even more severe criticism after two events. Assassination attempt on Trump in July and September — during one of which he was shot in the right ear.

President Biden has called on all political campaigns to “let down the air” after the first attempt on Trump’s life was made at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, although his own campaign had cited the former president’s remarks six months earlier. next to Hitler.

“That was a little harsh, I wish I could take it back,” Osborn told The Post in an emailed quote Monday. “I served in the Navy and sometimes I still talk like (a) sailor. I am not a career politician, I speak like an ordinary man because I am an ordinary man.

The Navy veteran and grain millers union leader portrays himself as a working-class moderate and attacks Fischer as a Washington insider. wealthy corporate donors and the pharmaceutical industry.

He has also made an effort to distance himself from Democrats because the Senate races’ main campaign arm is not involved in his race, and a spokesperson for his campaign told NOTUS last week that he was “working to beat the Democrats.”bipartisan doomsday cycle.”

new situation surveys show this strategy might work to make one’s name known and get him within a certain percentage point of Fischer in the race.

But the industrial mechanic raises most of his money from well-connected liberal donors with a super PAC aligned with his candidacy Gets commissions of up to $100,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund nonprofit backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as well as George Soros.

The main campaign committee also received a maximum donation of $3,300 from former pharmaceutical executive Roger Perlmutter of Merck & Co. and a $5,600 donation from Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff to “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Federal Election Commission. Show references.

He is scheduled to host a fundraiser with the “Veep” star on Sunday Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

In his speech to donors, Osborn also pointed out that the unsuccessful 2022 candidacy of Trump-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster was also a bad omen for Fischer.

“I’m not 100 percent sure Trump has enough clout and swagger here that people want to believe in our red state,” he said of the 45th president, who won Nebraska by more than 19 percentage points in 2020.

Herbster lost to another Republican businessman, Jim Pillen, in the primary a month after he was hit with a string of sexual assault allegations.

Fischer, who received Trump’s endorsement earlier this month, has represented Nebraska in the Senate since winning the 2012 election by more than 15 points. He won by almost 20 points in 2018.

The New York Buddy Group donor community can help Democratic and Democratic-leaning candidates raise between $30,000 and $50,000 per hour. According to MSNBCThe average donation per person is around $250.

Sarah Kovner, one of the group’s founders Longtime supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton and has contributed almost $900,000 to Democratic candidates since 1982.

Tony Vargas, who is challenging Republican Rep. Don Bacon in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District, was also at the meeting.