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For the text version of this and all our Long Reed, go to the State House how neo-Nazi David Duke won office by John Gans. On the 21st of January 1989, the day after George H.W. Bush's inauguration, David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux

Clan, a neo-Nazi, and the head of an organization called the National Association for

the Advancement of White People,

finished first in an open primary for the 81st legislative district of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Running as a Republican, he came out ahead of the State Party's preferred candidate, John Trine.

Republican National Committee staff members went to Louisiana to bolster Trine's

faltering campaign and work against Duke. We will do anything to defeat this man,

the Bush campaign manager and then RNC Chief Lee Atwater declared to the Wall Street Journal.

The former and current Republican presidents endorsed Duke's opponent and made advertisements

on his behalf, to little avail.

Duke would go on to win the runoff vote a month later

and enter the state legislature.

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