BALTIMORE — With less than three weeks until Election Day, heavy hitters in Maryland’s Democratic Party condemned Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox’s acceptance of a gift from a member of a far-right, extremist group at his primary night party.
“Dan Cox gleefully embraced and accepted a gift from a white supremacist domestic terrorist organization,” Carter Elliott IV, a spokesman for Democrat Wes Moore’s gubernatorial campaign, said in a statement. “This shows what we’ve known all along, Cox is a dangerous extremist that doesn’t belong anywhere near the governor’s office.”
The encounter became widely known Friday when The Washington Post published an article with video of Cox taking a comb from a person who identified himself as a member of the Maryland Proud Boys on July 19 at the Vigilant Hose Co. in Emmitsburg.
