American politician (born 1949)
Steven Arnold King
(born May 28, 1949) is an American
far-right
politician and businessman who served as a
U.S. representative
from Iowa from 2003 to 2021. A member of the
Republican Party
, he represented
Iowa's 5th congressional district
until 2013 and the state's
4th congressional district
from 2013 to 2021.
Born in 1949 in
Storm Lake, Iowa
, King attended
Northwest Missouri State University
from 1967 to 1970. He founded a construction company in 1975 and worked in business and environmental study before seeking the Republican nomination for
a seat
in the
Iowa Senate
in 1996. He won the primary and the general election, and was reelected in 2000. In
2002
King was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from
Iowa's 5th congressional district
after the incumbent,
Tom Latham
, was reassigned to the
4th district
after redistricting. He was reelected four times before the
2010 United States Census
removed the 5th district and placed King in the 4th, which he represented from 2013.
King is an opponent of
immigration
and
multiculturalism
, and has a long history of
racist
and anti-immigrant rhetoric and
white nationalist
affiliations.
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[2]
[3]
In 2018
The Washington Post
described King as "the Congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism."
[1]
King has been criticized for his affiliation with
white supremacist
ideas,
[4]
made controversial statements against immigrants,
[5]
[6]
[7]
and supported European
right-wing populist
and
far-right
politicians who have engaged in racism,
anti-Semitism
and
Islamophobia
.
[8]
For much of King's congressional tenure, Republican politicians and officials were silent about his rhetoric, and frequently sought his endorsement and campaigned with him because of his popularity with northwest Iowa's voters.
[3]
[9]
Shortly before the
2018 election
, the
National Republican Congressional Committee
withdrew funding for King's reelection campaign and its chairman,
Steve Stivers
, condemned King's conduct, although Iowa's Republican senators and governor continued to endorse him.
[9]
[10]
King was narrowly reelected, but after a January 2019 interview in which he questioned the negative connotations of the terms "white nationalist" and "white supremacy",
[11]
he was widely condemned by both parties, the media, and public figures, and the
Republican Steering Committee
removed him from all House committee assignments.
[12]
King ran for
reelection
but, campaign funding and support having declined, lost the June 2020 Republican primary to
Randy Feenstra
by 10 points.
[13]
[14]
Personal life, education, and business career
King was born on May 28, 1949, in
Storm Lake, Iowa
,
[11]
the son of Mildred Lila (nee Culler), a homemaker, and Emmett A. King, a
state police
dispatcher.
[15]
His father has
Irish
and
German
ancestry, and his mother has
Welsh
roots, as well as American ancestry going back to the
colonial era
.
[15]
His grandmother was a German immigrant.
[16]
King graduated in 1967 from Denison Community High School.
[11]
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[17]
In 1972, he married Marilyn Kelly,
[18]
with whom he has three children. Though raised
Methodist
, King attends his wife's
Catholic
church, having converted 17 years after marrying her.
[15]
His son Jeff King, a consultant, has been active in his political campaigns.
King attended
Northwest Missouri State University
from 1967 to 1970, where he was a member of the
Alpha Kappa Lambda
fraternity and majored in math and biology, but did not graduate.
[15]
[19]
In 1975, King founded King Construction, an
earthmoving
company.
[11]
In the 1980s, he founded the Kiron Business Association. King's involvement with the Iowa Land Improvement Contractors' Association led to regional and national offices in that organization and a growing interest in public policy.
[17]
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Iowa State Senate (1997?2003)
In 1996, King was elected to
Iowa's 6th Senate district
, defeating incumbent senator
Wayne Bennett
in the primary 68%?31%
[21]
and
Democrat
Eileen Heiden in the general election 64%?35%.
[22]
In 2000, he won reelection to a second term, defeating
Democratic
nominee Dennis Ryan 70%?30%.
[23]
During his tenure in the Iowa State Senate, King filed a bill requiring public schools to teach children that the U.S. "is the unchallenged greatest nation in the world and that it has derived its strength from...
Christianity
,
free enterprise
capitalism
and
Western civilization
", and served as chief sponsor of a
law making English the official language
of Iowa.
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U.S. House of Representatives (2003?2021)
Elections
- 2002
In 2002, after
redistricting
, King ran for the open seat in
Iowa's 5th congressional district
. The incumbent, fellow Republican
Tom Latham
, had his home drawn into the reconfigured
4th district
. King finished first in the four-way Republican primary with 31% of the vote,
[24]
less than the 35% voting threshold needed to win; subsequently, a
nominating convention
was held, at which he was nominated, defeating state house speaker
Brent Siegrist
51%?47%.
[25]
[26]
King won the general election, defeating
Council Bluffs
city councilman
Paul Shomshor
62%?38%. He won all the counties in the predominantly Republican district except
Pottawattamie
.
[27]
- 2004
King won reelection to a second term, defeating Democratic candidate Joyce Schulte, 63%?37%. He won all the counties in the district except
Clarke
.
[28]
- 2006
In 2006, King won reelection to a third term, defeating Schulte again, 59%?36%. He won all the counties in the district except Clarke and
Union
.
[29]
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- 2008
King won reelection to a fourth term, defeating Democratic candidate Rob Hubler, 60%?37%. For the first time in his career he won all 32 counties in his district.
[31]
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- 2010
King won reelection to a fifth term, defeating
Matt Campbell
, 66%?32%. That was his highest percentage yet. King also won all 32 counties again.
[33]
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- 2012
Iowa lost a district as a result of the 2010 census. King's district was renumbered the 4th, and pushed well to the east, absorbing
Mason City
and
Ames
. This placed King and his predecessor, Latham, in the same district. Latham opted to move to the reconfigured 3rd District to challenge Democratic incumbent
Leonard Boswell
. The reconfigured district was, at least on paper, much more competitive than King's old district. The old 5th had a
Cook Partisan Voting Index
of R+9, while the new 4th had a PVI of R+4. The new 4th was also mostly new to King; he retained only 45% of his former territory. It closely resembled the territory that Latham had represented from 1995 to 2003.
Soon afterward, former Iowa first lady
Christie Vilsack
, the wife of former governor and then current U.S. agriculture secretary
Tom Vilsack
, announced she was moving to the new 4th to challenge King. King received the endorsement of
Mitt Romney
, who said, "I'm looking here at Steve King because this man needs to be your congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington, D.C."
[35]
King won reelection to a sixth term, defeating Vilsack 53%?45%. King won all but seven counties, none of which he had previously represented:
Webster
,
Boone
,
Story
,
Chickasaw
,
Floyd
,
Cerro Gordo
, and
Winnebago
.
[36]
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King later said of his 2012 victory, "I faced $7 million, the best of everything Democrats can throw at me, their dream candidate and everything that can come from the Obama machine, and prevailed through all of that with 55 percent of my district that was new."
[38]
- 2014
On May 3, 2013, King announced that he would not run for the
U.S. Senate
in 2014.
[39]
King won reelection with 61.6% of the vote, defeating Democratic candidate Jim Mowrer.
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- 2016
King won reelection, receiving 61.2% of the vote to Democratic nominee Kim Weaver's 38.6%.
[41]
- 2018
King faced his closest race to date in 2018, receiving 50.4% of the vote to 47% for Democratic nominee
J. D. Scholten
; Libertarian candidate Charles Aldrich received 2%.
[42]
King likely prevailed due to Governor
Kim Reynolds
carrying the district with almost 61 percent of the vote in her bid for a full term.
[43]
Turnout was down from the 2016 election; 370,259 voted in 2016, compared to 313,251 in 2018.
[
citation needed
]
It was the closest a Democrat has come to winning what is now the 4th since
Berkley Bedell
left office in what was then the 6th District in 1986. That year, Republican
Fred Grandy
won with only 50.1 percent of the vote.
[44]
Since then, the only other time a Republican has not won election by double digits in this district (which became the 5th in 1993 and the 4th in 2013) was King's 2012 race against Vilsack.
[
citation needed
]
- 2020
In the wake of being stripped of his committee seats, King faced a credible primary challenger in State Senator
Randy Feenstra
, who represented much of the district's northwest portion. Feenstra outraised King by a significant margin.
[43]
Ultimately, King lost to Feenstra, taking 36.7 percent of the vote to Feenstra's 45.7 percent.
[45]
Tenure
King is considered an outspoken fiscal and social conservative. After winning the 2002 Republican nomination, he said that he intended to use his seat in Congress to "move the political center of gravity in Congress to the right."
[46]
During the
110th Congress
, King voted with the majority of the Republican Party 90.9% of the time.
[47]
He has continuously voted for Iraq War legislation, supported surge
[
clarification needed
]
efforts and opposed a time table for troop withdrawals. During the
112th United States Congress
King was one of 40 "staunch" members of the
Republican Study Committee
who frequently voted against Republican party leadership and vocally expressed displeasure with House bills.
[48]
In August 2015, King was named the least effective member of Congress by InsideGov due to his persistent failures to get legislation out of committee.
[49]
On December 18, 2019, King voted against
both articles of impeachment against Trump
, as did all 195 Republicans who voted.
Committee assignments
King served on the
Judiciary
,
Agriculture
, and
Small Business Committees
until January 14, 2019, when he was removed from all committee assignments after bipartisan condemnation of his remarks on white supremacy.
[50]
Caucus memberships
Political positions
Abortion
King opposes abortion.
[54]
He has a 100% rating from the
National Right to Life Committee
, indicating an
anti-abortion
voting record. King has also voted against allowing
human embryonic stem cell research
.
[55]
He supports the
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
, which would ban federal funding of abortions except in cases of what the bill calls "
forcible rape
". This would remove the coverage from
Medicaid
that covers abortions for victims of
statutory rape
or
incest
.
[56]
After
Todd Akin
made a controversial statement about "
legitimate rape
" on August 19, 2012, King came to his defense, characterizing the critical response as "petty personal attacks" and calling Akin a "strong Christian man".
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King said that Akin's voting record should be more important than his words.
[59]
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Six months later, King's defense of Akin (who lost his race) was seen as politically damaging by
Steven J. Law
of the
Conservative Victory Project
, a group including
Karl Rove
that was working to discourage conservative candidates they deemed unelectable, to enable more viable conservative candidates to gain office. Law said, "We're concerned about Steve King's Todd Akin problem."
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King sponsored legislation to ban abortion of a fetus that has a detectable heartbeat, which can in some cases occur as early as 6 weeks (before many women know they are pregnant). A physician who performs a prohibited abortion would be subject to a fine, up to five years in prison, or both. A woman who undergoes a prohibited abortion could not be prosecuted for violating the provisions of this bill.
[64]
In August 2019, while defending his opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest, King asked, "What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or
incest
? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?"
[65]
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Iowa State Senator
Randy Feenstra
, who went on to defeat King in the 2020 Republican primary, tweeted: "I am 100% pro-life but Steve King's bizarre comments and behavior diminish our message & damage our cause".
[67]
Wyoming
representative
Liz Cheney
called King's comments "appalling and bizarre" and called for his resignation.
[68]
King's comments were also criticized by
Steve Scalise
,
Kevin McCarthy
,
Donald Trump
, and Elise Jordan.
[69]
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Animal rights
In February 2010, King
tweeted
about chasing and shooting a raccoon that had tried to enter his house during a blizzard, prompting criticism from animal rights groups. He defended his actions, saying the animal might have been
rabid
.
[71]
In July 2012, King opposed the McGovern Amendment (to the 2012
Farm Bill
) to establish
misdemeanor
penalties for knowingly attending an organized
animal fight
and
felony
penalties for bringing a minor to such a fight. He was also one of 39 House members to vote against an upgrade of penalties for transporting fighting animals across state lines in 2007.
[72]
King received a score of zero on the 2012
Humane Society
Legislative Fund's
Humane Scorecard
.
[73]
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Afterward, he put out a video clarifying his position, stating that it would be putting animals above humans if it were legal to watch humans fight but not animals.
[76]
The issue prompted a feature segment on
The Colbert Report
criticizing King's reasoning. The main differences cited between human combat sports and dogfights were the ability to choose to participate and the consequences of losing a match.
[77]
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On September 24, 2010, comedian
Stephen Colbert
testified to the House Agriculture Committee about the working conditions of migrant farmworkers. King said he wanted to eliminate them, replacing them with "everyday American workers". He also said, "Maybe we should be spending less time watching
Comedy Central
and more time considering all the real jobs that are out there, ones that require real hard labor". He praised the "
Joe the Plumbers
of the world who many days would prefer the aroma of fresh dirt to that of the sewage from American elitists who disparage them even as they flush." Colbert, in his
faux-conservative character
, lampooned King. "This is America! I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican! I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a
Brazilian
."
[79]
In July 2012, King introduced an amendment to the House Farm Bill that would legalize previously banned
animal agriculture
practices such as
tail-docking
, using banned arsenic-based drugs in chicken feed, and keeping impregnated pigs in small crates. "My language wipes out everything they've done with pork and veal," King said of his amendment.
[80]
The
Humane Society of the United States
(HSUS) President
Wayne Pacelle
said the measure could nullify "any laws to protect animals, and perhaps ... laws to protect the environment, workers, or public safety."
[81]
In May 2013, King introduced another amendment to the House Farm Bill, the Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA), saying, "PICA blocks states from requiring 'free range' eggs or 'free range' pork."
[82]
In 2014, the controversial provision was dropped.
[83]
Climate change
King has dismissed concern over
global warming
, calling it a "religion" and claiming efforts to
address climate change
are useless.
[84]
[85]
A day after claiming that climate change was more "a religion than a science," he reasserted that many scientists overreact when discussing the consequences of global warming,
[86]
saying, "Everything that might result from a warmer planet is always bad in [environmentalists'] analysis. There will be more
photosynthesis
going on if the Earth gets warmer ... And if sea levels go up 4 or 6 inches, I don't know if we'd know that. We don't know where sea level is even, let alone be able to say that it's going to come up an inch globally because some
polar ice caps
might melt because there's
CO
2
suspended in the atmosphere."
[87]
Elections
King endorsed
Ted Cruz
in the
2016 Republican presidential primaries
, saying Cruz was the "answer to my prayers".
[88]
He endorsed and strongly supported
Donald Trump
after Trump won the nomination.
[89]
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In December 2020, King was one of 126 Republican members of the
House of Representatives
who signed an
amicus brief
in support of
Texas v. Pennsylvania
, a lawsuit filed at the
United States Supreme Court
contesting the results of the
2020 presidential election
, in which
Joe Biden
prevailed
[91]
over incumbent
Donald Trump
. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked
standing
under
Article III of the Constitution
to challenge the results of the election held by another state.
[92]
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[94]
House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi
issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion." Additionally, Pelosi reprimanded King and the other House members who supported the lawsuit: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."
[95]
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New Jersey Representative
Bill Pascrell
, citing section three of the
14th Amendment
, called for Pelosi to not seat the other Republicans who signed the brief supporting the suit. Pascrell argued that "the text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that."
[97]
Fiscal policy
Objecting to "taxpayer-funded subsidies, pet projects and added bureaucracy", King voted against
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
in the U.S. House of Representatives, saying, "Our economy will not recover because government spends more. It will recover because people produce more."
[98]
King also stood out as one of only 11 members of Congress to vote against the $51.8 billion
Hurricane Katrina
relief package in 2005, claiming there was no comprehensive plan for spending the aid money.
[99]
Gun rights
King opposes stricter regulations on gun ownership.
[54]
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In 2017, King said that a bill to close the so-called "gun show loophole" and add background checks for individuals who bought guns at gun shows would ruin "Christmas at the Kings'" if it passed.
[101]
In 2018, King criticized 18-year-old
Parkland high school shooting
survivor
X Gonzalez
, attempting to tie Gonzalez to Communist Cuba.
[102]
[103]
In 2018, he said that easy access to guns should not be blamed for gun violence, but rather
video games
, cultural changes, lack of
prayer in schools
, gun-free zones, family break-ups, and the
stimulant medication
Ritalin
.
[104]
Healthcare
King is a staunch opponent of the
Affordable Care Act
(Obamacare) and has led attempts to repeal it.
[105]
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He fought against
Medicare
and
Medicaid
covering a number of medications such as
Viagra
, which he called "recreational drugs".
[109]
In January 2017, King said that in the wake of the
2016 presidential election
, "it has become abundantly clear that the American people have overwhelmingly rejected Obamacare time and time again" and called for congressional Republicans to "take swift action to fulfill our promise to We the People and repeal this unconstitutional and egregious law passed by hook, crook and legislative shenanigan."
[110]
In May 2017, King said he had moved from supporting the
American Health Care Act
, the Republican replacement to the Affordable Care Act, to being unsure as a result of benefits such as emergency services, hospitalization and prescription drugs that were added following his backing of the measure: "Once they negotiated [essential health benefits] with the Freedom Caucus and Tuesday Group, it is hard for me to imagine they will bring that language in the Senate, or that it will be effective because they diluted this thing substantially." King added that he and Trump agreed on the need for the federal government to not have a role in health insurance and that Republicans would not have had difficulty repealing the Affordable Care Act had the party prioritized its replacement within the first week of the 115th Congress, in January 2015.
[111]
LGBT rights
On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in
Varnum v. Brien
unanimously that a
state ban
on same-sex marriage violated Iowa's constitution.
[112]
King soon commented that the justices "should resign from their position" and the state legislature "must also enact marriage license residency requirements so that Iowa does not become the gay marriage Mecca."
[113]
King, along with others, mounted a campaign against the three Iowa Supreme Court justices who were up for retention and had ruled on the gay marriage case. King bought $80,000 of radio advertising across the state calling for Iowans to vote against their retention. None of the three was retained.
[114]
On October 7, 2014, King was one of 19 members of Congress inducted into the
LGBT
civil rights advocacy group
Human Rights Campaign
's "Hall of Shame" for his opposition to LGBT equality.
[115]
[116]
In response to the Supreme Court's 2015 decision
Obergefell v. Hodges
, in which the court ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutionally protected right, King called for a
non-binding resolution
saying that states may refuse to recognize the decision.
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He has also called for the abolition of
civil marriage
.
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On May 17, 2019, King was one of 173 representatives to vote against the
Equality Act
.
[121]
Lobbying
On February 26, 2010, King went to the House floor to protest Democrats' handling of health care reform and said, "Lobbyists do a very effective and useful job on this Hill ... There's a credibility there in that arena that I think somebody needs to stand up for the lobby, and it is a matter of providing a lot of valuable information."
[122]
Immigration
King voted against the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020 which authorizes DHS to nearly double the available H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2020.
[123]
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King voted against Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158) which effectively prohibits ICE from cooperating with Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).
[125]
King is a proponent of the
Great Replacement
theory, the theory states that the white population is being replaced by mass non-white immigrants.
[126]
[127]
The Washington Post
has described King as "the U.S. congressman most openly affiliated with
white nationalism
", while
Vanity Fair
has said his opinions in this direction are "barely veiled".
[1]
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David Leonhardt
in an opinion piece for
The New York Times
has explicitly identified King as being a "white nationalist".
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King has stirred controversy and come to prominence by making statements that have been described as racist
[5]
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or racially charged.
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He is a staunch opponent of immigration and multiculturalism, and has supported far-right European politicians. According to
The Guardian
, King "has long been one of the most vociferously anti-immigration members of the House Republican caucus."
[138]
King has said that he is not a racist.
[11]
In October 2018, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee,
Steve Stivers
, condemned King as a racist, saying that King's actions and comments were "completely inappropriate" and constituted "
white supremacy
and hate."
[139]
The NRCC said it would not help King in his 2018 re-election efforts.
[10]
Representative
Carlos Curbelo
described King's comments and actions as "disgusting" and said that he would never vote for someone like King.
[140]
Senator
Ted Cruz
called King's rhetoric "divisive" but stopped short of condemning him.
[139]
Other Republicans, such as House Agriculture Committee Chairman
Mike Conaway
, dismissed the idea that King is racist.
[139]
In a January 2019 interview with
The New York Times
, King asked, "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization?how did that language become offensive?" He also said of the large increase in representation of minorities and women in the new Democrat-controlled House: "You could look over there and think the Democratic Party is no country for white men."
[11]
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He was subsequently condemned by numerous Republican members of Congress, including House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy
and other members of the House Republican leadership.
[142]
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[144]
U.S. Senator
Tim Scott
criticized King harshly in a
Washington Post
op-ed, and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell
called King's remarks "unwelcome and unworthy of his elected position".
[145]
[146]
Conservative commentator
Ben Shapiro
called for King to be
censured
and for a primary challenge against King.
[147]
After the interview was published, and following backlash from across the political spectrum, King issued a statement via Twitter stating that he was "simply a Nationalist", that he did not advocate for "white nationalism and white supremacy", and that "I want to make one thing abundantly clear: I reject those labels and the evil ideology they define."
[11]
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King said
The New York Times
had misunderstood his comments, and that he did not question why "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" were offensive terms.
[149]
On Twitter, he later stated: "As I told
The New York Times
, 'it's not about race; It's never been about race'."
[150]
The House voted 416?1 to rebuke King's comments; Illinois Representative
Bobby Rush
was the lone "nay" vote, but only because he believed a rebuke was too lenient and that King deserved to be censured.
[151]
Immigration and multiculturalism
King is a staunch opponent of
immigration
and
multiculturalism
.
[11]
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In April 2006, when asked if "the US economy simply couldn't function without" the presence of illegal immigrants, King said that he rejected that position "categorically". He said the 77.5 million people between the ages of 16 and 65 in the United States who are not part of the workforce "could be put to work and we could invent machines to replace the rest."
[154]
In 2006, King called for an electrified fence on the US border, commenting that such fences were successful in containing livestock.
[106]
In July 2013, speaking about proposed immigration legislation, King said of illegal immigrants: "For every one who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds?and they've got calves the size of
cantaloupes
because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
[155]
Despite strong rebukes from both Democrats and other Republicans, including
House Speaker
John Boehner
, who called his statements "ignorant" and "hateful", and
House Majority Leader
Eric Cantor
, who called the comments "inexcusable", King defended his comments, saying he got the description from the
border patrol
.
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In July 2015, referencing HUD secretary
Julian Castro
's remarks on how poorly the Republican Party was doing with Hispanic voters, King responded, "What does Julian [
sic
] Castro know? Does he know that I'm as Hispanic and Latino as he?"
[158]
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King is neither Hispanic nor Latino by either family history or ethnic definition.
[160]
In 2016, a journalist for the
Iowa Starting Line
reported that King displayed the
Confederate flag
on his office desk, although Iowa was part of
the Union
during the
American Civil War
.
[161]
He removed it after a Confederate flag-waver later
fatally shot two Iowa police officers
.
[162]
King attempted to block a bill that would remove
Andrew Jackson
and replace him with
Harriet Tubman
on the
twenty-dollar bill
.
[163]
King praised
Bernie Sanders
numerous times for his view on immigration, saying they were "closer to mine than it is some of the presidential candidates on the Republican side."
[164]
In March 2017, King wrote "culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." When asked about his comments, King stood by them, saying: "you need to teach your children your values" and "with the inter-marriage, I'd like to see an America that is just so homogenous that we look a lot the same".
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King was rebuked by members of his own party, including Speaker Paul D. Ryan, but praised by white supremacist
David Duke
and
The Daily Stormer
, a
neo-Nazi
website.
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In July 2017, the
House Appropriations Committee
voted to fund the
US-Mexico border wall
, allocating $1.6 billion for it. King called for an additional $5 billion for the wall, to be paid for with federal dollars coming from
Planned Parenthood
,
food stamps
, and other federal welfare programs,
[166]
saying, "I would find half of a billion of dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthood's budget, and the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people who have not worked in three generations."
[167]
On November 5, 2018, King referred to Mexican immigrants as "dirt" while at a campaign stop.
The Weekly Standard
reported the comment;
[168]
King denied saying it and called on
The Weekly Standard
to release audio of the remarks.
[169]
The Weekly Standard
then released a recording of the exchange, confirming that King had made the remarks.
[168]
In May 2019, King warned against "presuming that every culture is equal".
[170]
On September 4, 2019, King posted a video of himself drinking water from water fountains over toilets at migrant facilities.
[171]
Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
criticized the GOP as "anti-immigrant" following the video.
[172]
President Barack Obama
On March 7, 2008, during his press engagements to announce his reelection campaign, King made remarks about then U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama
and his middle name "Hussein", saying:
I don't want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name?whatever their religion their father might have been, I'll just say this: When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States?I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam? I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the
al-Qaida
, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on
September 11
.
[173]
On March 10, King defended his comments to the
Associated Press
, saying "[Obama will] certainly be viewed as a savior for them... That's why you will see them supporting him, encouraging him."
[174]
Obama said he did not take the comments too seriously, describing King as a person who thrives on making controversial statements to get media coverage. He said, "I would hope [Obama's opponent] Senator
[John] McCain
would want to distance himself from that kind of inflammatory and offensive remarks." The McCain campaign disavowed King's comments, saying "John McCain rejects the type of politics that degrades our civics... and obviously that extends to Congressman King's statement."
[174]
In mid-January 2009, King acknowledged that terrorists were not dancing in the streets, and had made statements opposing Obama. He said he found Obama's decision to use his middle name "Hussein" when sworn in as the
44th President of the United States
to be "bizarre" and "a double standard".
[175]
In 2010, King speculated that Obama's immigration policies were influenced by racial favoritism toward black people.
[106]
In February 2020 on Twitter, King insinuated former
DHS
official
Philip Haney
had been murdered as a reprisal for "archiving data that incriminated the highest levels of the Obama administration".
[176]
Racial profiling
On June 14, 2010, King said on the House floor that racial profiling is an important component of law enforcement: "Some claim that the Arizona law will bring about racial discrimination profiling. First let me say, Mr. Speaker, that profiling has always been an important component of legitimate law enforcement. If you can't profile someone, you can't use those common sense indicators that are before your very eyes. Now, I think it's wrong to use racial profiling for the reasons of discriminating against people, but it's not wrong to use race or other indicators for the sake of identifying people that are violating the law."
[177]
As an example of profiling, King described an instance when a taxi driver would stop for him before he had to hail a cab, just because he was in a business suit.
[178]
The same day, on
G. Gordon Liddy
's radio program, King said that Obama's policies favored black people: "The president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race?on the side that favors the black person in the case of
Professor Gates and Officer Crowley
."
[179]
On January 13, 2018, King tweeted that racial oppression was a "thing of the past".
[180]
On July 18, 2016, King participated in a panel discussion on
MSNBC
,
[181]
during which a panelist from
Esquire
magazine suggested that the 2016 convention could be the last in which "old white people would command the Republican Party's attention". King responded, "This whole 'old white people' business does get a little tired, Charlie. I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?"
[182]
Panel moderator
Chris Hayes
later described King's comments as odious and preposterous.
[182]
Panel member
April Ryan
described them as "in-my-face racism".
[183]
That evening, King was asked about his comments during an interview with
ABC News
. King said he had meant to say that "Western civilization", rather than "white people", is the "superior culture": "when you describe Western civilization, that can mean much of Western civilization happens to be Caucasians. But we should not apologize for our culture or our civilization. The contributions that were made by Western civilization itself, and by Americans, by Americans of all races, stand far above the rest of the world. The Western civilization and the American civilization are a superior culture."
[184]
[185]
[186]
Attitudes towards Muslims
In September 2014, King called for the
Obama administration
to begin surveilling mosques to monitor recruitment to ISIS. Although
BuzzFeed News
said there was no evidence of such recruitment, King claimed it was occurring in parts of the United States.
[187]
[188]
On December 9, 2015, he told
MSNBC
that he agreed with his party that Islam is "incompatible" with American life.
[189]
In an interview with
Breitbart News
, King said he did not want Muslims working in meat-packing plants, because "I don't want people doing my pork that won't eat it, let alone hope I go to hell for eating pork chops."
[190]
[191]
On March 7, 2019, he voted "present" on a resolution the US House passed condemning anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim discrimination.
[192]
On August 27, 2019, King joked about
Uyghur
Muslims detained in China's
Xinjiang re-education camps
being forced to eat pork.
[193]
[194]
Abuse at Abu Ghraib prison
In May 2004, King compared the
torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison
to "
hazing
".
[195]
[196]
He argued that violence against American soldiers in Iraq was more extreme than the prisoner
abuse, saying that comparing the two was like comparing the crimes "committed by
Jeffrey Dahmer
compared to those of
Heidi Fleiss
",
[197]
and that "if
Tom Harkin
and his Democrat allies want to continue to act like political cannibals and pitch partisan hooey to anyone who'll listen, then they're eating their own."
[198]
Affirmative action
King opposes
affirmative action
. He has said: "There's been legislation that's been brought through this House that sets aside benefits for women and minorities. The only people that it excludes are white men... Pretty soon, white men are going to notice they are the ones being excluded."
[199]
In 2015, King introduced a bill that would require colleges to report affirmative action.
[200]
Support for far-right politics
On March 12, 2017, King expressed his support for
Geert Wilders
, a
far-right
Dutch
politician known for his
anti-Islam
views, leading up to the election in the Netherlands, stating, "Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny"
[8]
[106]
and "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies," referring to his views on ending
birthright citizenship
and promoting "an America that's just so homogenous that we look a lot [sic] the same."
[8]
His statements received criticism from other politicians, including several Republicans, with
Jeb Bush
responding that "America is a nation of immigrants"; despite the backlash, King defended his statements.
[8]
[106]
Others reported that King's statements were well received among
white nationalists
, garnering support from prominent members of that community.
[8]
[106]
The next day on
CNN
, King said he was referring to culture, not ethnicity, saying: "It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into households that were already assimilated in America, those babies will grow up as American as any other baby with as much patriotism and love of country as any other baby."
[201]
Former
Ku Klux Klan
leader
David Duke
praised King's statement.
[202]
King supported French right-wing populist politician, leader of the
Front National
Marine Le Pen
in the
French 2017 presidential election
.
[203]
He sent her a message stating: "Our shared civilization must be saved".
[203]
King supported
Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban
, a right-wing populist and strong opponent of admitting migrants during the
European migrant crisis
. On December 8, 2017, King tweeted Orban's quote that "Diversity is not our strength. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban [
sic
], 'Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life but a lower one'."
[204]
"Assimilation has become a dirty word to the multiculturalist Left. Assimilation, not diversity, is our American strength," he tweeted.
[205]
In June 2018, he retweeted a comment by
Mark Collett
, a British
neo-Nazi
and self-described admirer of
Hitler
, about Europe "waking up" to mass immigration.
[206]
On August 24, 2018, King was interviewed by the Austrian website
Unzensuriert
(
Uncensored
), which is connected to the country's
Freedom Party
, part of the
First Kurz government
. He agreed with the interviewer that American financier
George Soros
is involved with the "
Great Replacement
", a far-right conspiracy theory that claims to have identified a plot to replace white Europeans with minorities and immigrants.
[207]
[208]
King also endorsed right-wing Canadian political commentator
Faith Goldy
in the
2018 Toronto mayoral election
. Goldy participated in a neo-Nazi podcast and has been described as far-right or alt-right.
[10]
[209]
[210]
In response to the Goldy endorsement, and King's other racially contentious remarks, Minnesota-based
agricultural cooperative
Land O'Lakes
ended its support for his reelection.
[211]
In February 2021, after he left office, it was announced that he would be a speaker at
Nick Fuentes
'
America First Political Action Conference
.
[212]
[213]
White genocide
King subscribes to the
white genocide conspiracy theory
, and has stated this view while in Congress.
[214]
[215]
[216]
Mother Jones
and other media have reported more generally on his belief in and promotion of the conspiracy theory.
[217]
[218]
[219]
In 2018, King spoke to an Austrian far-right publication about "the great replacement", which
The New York Times
described as "a conspiracy theory on the far right that claims shadowy elites are working behind the scenes to reduce white populations to minorities in their own countries."
[11]
The theory gained notoriety after the alleged perpetrator of the 2019
Christchurch mosque shootings
titled his manifesto after it.
[220]
Antisemitism controversy in 2018
In late October 2018, after the
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
, the
Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) sent the House speaker,
Paul Ryan
, an open letter calling on him to censure King,
[221]
citing King's relationship with far-right
Freedom Party of Austria
and other far-right groups in Europe. The letter accused King of engaging in
antisemitic smearing
of the Jewish investor and philanthropist
George Soros
. It concluded, "Rep. King has brought dishonor onto the House of Representatives. We strongly urge you and the congressional leadership to demonstrate your revulsion with Rep. King's actions by stripping him of his subcommittee chairmanship and initiating proceedings to formally censure or otherwise discipline him."
[207]
Two leaders within the Iowa Jewish community also criticized King for being "an enthusiastic crusader for the same types of abhorrent beliefs held by the Pittsburgh shooter".
[222]
[223]
Post-political career
After King's loss in the 2020 Republican primary in Iowa's 4th Congressional district, he wrote a book giving his account of what happened and travelled for several months to promote it. The book is entitled
Walking Through the Fire: My Fight for the Heart and Soul of America
.
[224]
It was put out by Fidelis Publishing, known for publishing Christian and Conservative books. King says he was motivated to write lest "the media and the elitists in the Republican Party write a political epitaph" for him.
[224]
The book maintains that freedom of speech is being undermined and that the Democratic party is weaponizing terms like "white nationalist" and "white supremacist".
[224]
King claims his attempts to warn America about this was why he lost his party's support "I'm trying to tell America, and what do they [Republican leadership] do? Politically assassinate me for trying to let them know what's happening to all of us."
[224]
He told the
Des Moines Register
that while he currently had no plans to return to politics, he would if there was a "groundswell".
[224]
He went on to say, "I don't see that at this point. But I do see a lot of support, and we've got a lot of policies and causes that we need to push. We've got state conventions coming up and a platform to be shaped."
[224]
King has campaigned against
carbon-capture pipelines
; at an August 2023 event cosponsored by the
John Birch Society
, he criticized the use of
eminent domain
and financial motivations behind the pipelines.
[225]
In December 2023, King campaigned with
2024 presidential candidate
Vivek Ramaswamy
at an event in
Lakeside, Iowa
, but stopped short of endorsing him.
[226]
In January 2024, he gave a full endorsement of him.
[227]
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For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds?and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.
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