Missouri Republicans disown Ku Klux Klan-linked candidate for governor

The Ku Klux Klan protests on 8 July 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. According to the ADL, McClanahan wrote for a Klan-linked newsletter ‘about his radicalisation in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in 2017’. Photograph: Chet Strange/Getty Images

The Missouri Republican party sought to distance itself from a candidate for governor linked to the Ku Klux Klan, saying it would remove him from the ballot.

In a statement, the party said it had been “made aware that Darrell Leon McClanahan III filed for governor as a Republican despite his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, which fundamentally contradicts our party’s values and platform.