How the Media Missed a GOP Candidate’s Racist Posts

Edward Durr (R), the long-shot candidate who defeated New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D), apparently has “a history of posting bigoted, misogynistic and derogatory comments on social media,” the Washington Post reports.

“Yet none of it rated news coverage, even after Durr, a commercial truck driver who had never held office, became the Republican nominee for New Jersey’s third legislative district in April. According to a search of the Nexis database, which catalogues thousands of news sources, there were no published or broadcast reports about Durr’s posts in the six months leading up to Election Day.”