Joe Mitchell, a Republican candidate for Congress in Iowa who is backed by President Donald Trump , was filmed in college making controversial remarks about Black women, race and his manhood.
He founded Run GenZ, a national nonprofit that aims to get young conservatives to run for office. He has also been a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and briefly served in two roles in the second Trump administration. One of them was the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Great Plains regional administrator. He also runs a real estate development firm.
Mitchell, 29, is running in Iowa’s competitive 2nd Congressional District with the backing of President Donald Trump . As per the Daily Mail , Mitchell became the youngest-ever state lawmaker when he was elected in 2018 at age 20, while still at Drake University.
The controversy comes as Mitchell campaigns for Congress and recently presented Trump with a self-created “Man of the Century Award” at a rally in Iowa.
The video shows Mitchell crying about the size of his body parts and talking about “black women, according to the Daily Mail. He also says he wants a relationship with a black woman he liked at the time. “I want to marry one,” Mitchell said of black women, as per the video. In response to one question he said, “I want my kids to not be white, ok? He also said he does not like white people and asked why people think he hangs out with people who are not white. “I wanted to say, Mr President, for the last 10 years, you kept this country more safe than any other president, ever,” Mitchell said at the rally, as per The Independent . “And they’ve never given you the Nobel Peace Prize, by the way, which is a disgrace.”
