Delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party conference voted to endorse Royce White, a Minneapolis-born former professional basketball player, in the August 13th primary whose winner will face incumbent Democrat Amy Klobuchar in November, Minnesota Public Radio reports.
Unlike other dilettante celebrity political candidates favored by Republicans in the last few election cycles, White isn’t just a retired athlete; he’s also a podcaster. And on that podcast, he’s promoted the conspiracy theory that Paul Pelosi’s attacker–recently sentenced to 30 years in prison–was actually his gay lover, claimed there’s a Satanic cabal running the government, and of course endorsed the benchmark conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was a Chinese bioweapons. But remember: he was Minnesota’s Mr. Basketball in 2009.