Chris Madel, a Minneapolis lawyer who represented the immigration agent who fatally shot Renee Good, said Monday that he was ending his Republican campaign for governor of Minnesota after a second protester was killed by federal authorities.
“I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state,” Madel said in a video message he posted on social media, “nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”
Madel, who has never held elected office, launched his candidacy in December as a political outsider and a fierce defender of law enforcement. One of nearly a dozen candidates in the Republican primary for governor, Madel had been endorsed by the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis.
His ONLY chance of staying in the race with any measure of success would require so much opposition towards ICE and Trump and the GOP broadly would leave him basically adopting all the same positions as whoever he’s running against. It’s futile, all staying in the race would do for him would be open more opportunities for people to pin him and trick him into defending ICE and getting clips all over the internet.
He knows his only chance of having a future is keeping his head down and disappearing from the heat. It’s about the smartest decision he could make. But let’s all remember it’s self-preservation, not morality. If there was a shred of values or ethics in clowns like this they wouldn’t be republicans at all.