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Paul Nehlen (born May 9, 1969) is an American white nationalist[1][2], businessman, and a political candidate in his second attempt to replace incumbent Paul Ryan in the Republican Primary for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the United States elections, 2018.

Nehlen has embraced alt-right memes. He was originally backed by Steve Bannon.[3][4][5]

Nehlen endorsed Republican Roy Moore in the 2017 Alabama U.S. Senate special election.[6][4]

History

Nehlen was born in Ohio, and has lived in Delavan, Wisconsin since 2014.[7] His business career has included stints at Deltech Engineering / United Dominion Industries and SPX Corporation,[8] and he served until 2016 as the Senior VP of Operations at Neptune-Benson LLC. a subsidiary of Evoqua Water Technologies. He holds several patents related to filtering and manufacturing methods,[9] and registered in 2014 a consulting entity, Blue Skies Global LLC, which does not appear to have conducted any business to date.[10] Nehlen was an advisory board member of Operation Homefront until 2016, and is married to Gabriela Lira. They have no children of their own, but Nehlen has two grown sons from a prior marriage.[11]

White nationalist beliefs

Paul Nehlen said he was reading The Culture of Critique (1998), an anti-Semitic work, and described it as "outstanding so far".[12][13][14]

Nehlen has been described as alt-right, white nationalist, and antisemitic.[15][16][17]

Nehlen frequently uses the slogan: 'It's OK to be white.'[4] On Twitter, he suggested Ari Cohn convert to Christianity to "fill a Jesus-shaped hole" inside of him.[4][18]He also used the Triple parentheses in one of his tweets, read Kevin B. MacDonald's Culture of Critique, and has been interviewed by The Right Stuff's Fash the Nation and far-right vlogger Baked Alaska. He called John Cardillo and Kurt Schlichter "shekels-for-hire" and posted a tweet with the antisemitic catchphrase "The goyim know" (referencing a popular theory about an alleged Jewish conspiracy).[19]

Nehlen also posted on Twitter a picture of Paul Ryan and Randy Bryce being dropped out of a helicopter, a reference to death flights, a method of executing political opponents. Responses to this message included death flight memes of former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet (who was known for executing opponents with death flights) and Pepe the Frog.[20]

Political career

Despite receiving endorsements from Breitbart News and prominent personalities such as Laura Ingraham and Sarah Palin,[21] Paul Nehlen was defeated in the 2016 Wisconsin's 1st congressional district primaries, losing with 16% of the votes to Paul Ryan with 84% of the votes.[22] When he posted a ballot selfie on election day, the Town of Delavan police said he had committed election fraud, a Class I felony. The police said he deliberately delayed an investigation by doing a factory reset on the phone and erasing the SIM card. Assistant District Attorney Haley Johnson said the ballot selfie was "technically a violation" of law, but decided not to issue criminal charges, stating Nehlen had "ignorantly posted the image to draw attention to his candidacy," and not vote buying. Johnson wrote "It is unfortunate that Mr. Nehlen showed such little regard for a law enforcement investigation."[23]

Nehlen is currently running again to unseat Paul Ryan, this time with Nick Polce also in the race for the 2018 Republican primary.[24][25] He was backed by Steve Bannon up until the Roy Moore defeat, now being denounced by Breitbart.[3][4][5] On December 27, 2017, Bannon's adviser Arthur Schwartz said Nehlen is "dead to us." Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollak said: "We don't support him."[26] On December 27, Pollak tweeted that Breitbart had not covered Nehlen in months. However, as recently as December 18, he had been a featured guest on Curt Schilling's Breitbart radio show Whatever It Takes; Schilling unequivocally expressed his endorsement of Nehlen.[27] Callum Borchers of the Washington Post said "Breitbart’s move is political calculus" because it "needs to align itself with politicians who can win to help regain the appearance of influence Moore’s defeat damaged."[28]

Political positions

Paul Nehlen wants to build a border wall to limit illegal immigration into the United States, and pay for it by taxing remittances to Mexico. He is in favor of drastically reducing the number of legal immigrants to the United States to allow those who are here to assimilate. He also wants to deport illegal aliens, enforce the legal path to citizenship, and enforce immigration laws generally.

Paul Nehlen is anti-gun control, and he supports legislation to guarantee nationwide reciprocity for gun permits. Paul Nehlen is also pro-life. He is against allowing abortion providers to receive any funds from the government. He currently supports Bill H.R. 490, known as the Heartbeat Bill, which would ban abortion of all unborn children that have a detectable heartbeat, which occurs at around 8 weeks.

Paul Nehlen is against the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and believes in a free-market approach to healthcare. Some policies that he supports are the use of Health Savings Accounts(HSAs), portable insurance accounts, permitting the purchase of health insurance across state lines, tax-deductible personal plans, the elimination of mandated coverage, and the repeal of regulations that inhibit choice and competition.

Paul Nehlen rejects free trade as a scam. He wants to pass a tariff on imported goods in response to currency manipulation by China and other unfair trade practices. He opposes free trade agreements, and opposes shipping jobs overseas and importing labor into the US to replace US workers. He supports lowering the corporate tax rate to 12% and cutting regulations to bring back jobs, and eliminating the corporate inversion loophole.

Paul Nehlen supports sending education spending and control of the educational system back to the states, citing rapidly increasing college costs, US students lagging behind those of other countries, and excessive/wasteful spending. Paul Nehlen also favors term limits on various government politicians, including a three term limit for Senators, a three term limit for House Representatives, and a one term limit of 16 years for Supreme Court Justices.[29]

Electoral history

#E81B23 #E81B23 #DDDDDD
U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin's 1st district, Republican primary, 2016[30]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan 57,364 84.06%
Republican Paul Nehlen 10,864 15.92%
Scattering N/A 15 0.02%
Total 68,243 100%
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U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin's 1st district, Republican primary, 2018 Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul Ryan TBD TBD
Republican Paul Nehlen TBD TBD
Republican Nick Polce TBD TBD
Total TBD 100%

References

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  2. ^ Suebsaeng, Asawin. "Breitbart Still Wants to Make Paul Ryan Miserable, Even Without 'F**king Nazi' Paul Nehlen Around". The Daily Beast. The website distanced itself from white nationalist Wisconsin candidate Paul Nehlen... {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Steve Bannon Candidates Fail". National Review. Archived from the original on 2017-11-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  6. ^ "Alleged White Nationalist Tied to President Trump and Roy Moore Challenging Paul Ryan". www.christianpost.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-27. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Miller, S.A. (March 29, 2016). "Businessman Paul Nehlen to challenge Paul Ryan from right in primary - Says he's 'had it' with House speaker betraying conservatives". www.washingtontimes.com. Washington Times. Archived from the original on June 4, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  13. ^ Nehlen, Paul (2017-12-26). "Currently reading pic.twitter.com/8UVUeEn7PC". @pnehlen. Archived from the original on 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2018-01-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Nehlen, Paul (4 Jan 2018). "As you know, I'm currently reading The Culture of Critique, which is outstanding so far. Newsweek recetly published a grotesque smear piece on the book. Here is the response to that piece by the book's author, Professor Kevin MacDonald. …". @pnehlen. Archived from the original on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2018-01-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  16. ^ Guttman, Nathan (2017-12-26). "Paul Nehlen, Paul Ryan's 'Alt-Right' Opponent, Goes On 'Shekel-For-Hire' Rant". The Forward. Archived from the original on 2017-12-27. Retrieved 2017-12-26. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  18. ^ Nehlen, Paul (19 Dec 2017). "See, now we're getting somewhere @AriCohn. You can't fill a Jesus shaped hole in your heart by trolling the internet, calling people names". Twitter @pnehlen. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  24. ^ "POLCE, NICK - Candidate overview - FEC.gov". FEC.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-12-27. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  26. ^ Darcy, Oliver. "Bannon adviser: Paul Ryan challenger Paul Nehlen is 'dead to us' after inflammatory tweets". Archived from the original on 2017-12-27. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  27. ^ Legum, Judd (December 28, 2017). "Breitbart quietly deletes recent interview with openly racist congressional candidate". ThinkProgress. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  28. ^ Borchers, Callum (2017-12-28). "Analysis | The real reason Breitbart abandoned 'pro-white' Paul Nehlen". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2017-12-31. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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