Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has won the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives representing President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
The district, currently represented by Democratic Congresswoman Lois Frankel, is very democratic, so its chances of winning the seat in November are slim. But Loomer’s overwhelming victory over five other Republican rivals was decisive.
Loomer was signed by Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida firebrand Trump supporter.
She is known for doing and saying things that create controversy.
During a production of “Julias Caesar” in Central Park in 2017, she shook the stage shaking, “Stop the normalization of political violence against the law! This is not acceptable!”
In November 2017, Loomer tweeted that she could not find a “non-Muslim cab like @Uber @Lyft” driver, so she was late for a meeting. After a day of tweeting about Muslims, Uber and Lyft announced that they were banned from using their services.
In November 2018, Loomer was banned from Twitter after calling representative Ilhan Omar “anti-Jewish” and blasting her religion.
In November 2018, in protest against what she calls Twitter’s shadow ban on conservatives, she played herself at Twitter’s office in New York.
Also in November 2018 Loomer was escorted out of a congressional hearing on social media when she stood up to accuse Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who is testifying, of trying to tilt the midterm elections in favor of Democrats.
The president tweeted his support of Loomer late Tuesday night.
“Great going Laura. You have a great chance against a Pelosi puppet!” he wrote.
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