MINNEAPOLIS — The chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party has apologized for a campaign video played at last week's state Republican convention by secretary of state candidate Kim Crockett that included an image that depicted liberal donor George Soros as a puppet master, a common antisemitic trope.
In the video, a meme depicted Secretary of State Steve Simon and Democratic elections lawyer Marc Elias as twins from the horror film "The Shining," along with the words "Let's wreck elections forever and ever and ever." The next slide in the video showed Simon and Elias attached to Soros' fingers with strings. All three men are Jewish.
"Yes, I am Jewish, Steve Simon is Jewish and George Soros is Jewish. Not very subtle, @mngop," Elias tweeted.
