GET ME REWRITE: Republican who won 8-way primary with 38.8% of the vote and sez women are 'too mouthy' is GOP sacrificial lamb in Minnesota US Senate race against incumbent Amy Klobuchar

 

Primary results:  Ballotpedia

Headline:  HuffPost, 8/13/2024

Royce White, a former NBA player and current devotee of ex-President Donald Trump, won the Minnesota Republican Party’s Senate primary on Tuesday. 

White had secured an eyebrow-raising endorsement from the Minnesota GOP back in May, although he was certain to face formidable odds if he managed to challenge Democratic incumbent Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Nov. 5.  

The basketball player, once hailed for progressive mental health activism, led Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd. But more recently, White has made a name for himself with inflammatory comments about women, Jewish people and the LGBTQ community, leaning into conspiracy theories popular in far-right corners of the internet. 

White now counts among his allies Steve Bannon, the Trump adviser-turned-felon, and Alex Jones, the far-right showman who spread lies about victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and now owes their families $1.5 billion.

 

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of the idiom 'sacrificial lamb', as in someone or something that is deliberately sacrificed to promote a cause or for the benefit of others, occurred in 1834.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. anti-modern
2. breast-beating
3. insensitive
4. misdeal
5. relabel
6. soft in the head