Longtime Neo-Nazi Robert Ransdell Running For U.S. Senate
Robert Ransdell, former regional coordinator for the neo-Nazi (NA) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a current coordinator for the similarly-minded (NARRG) is campaigning as a write-in candidate for United States Senate in Kentucky under the slogan âWith Jews We Lose!â
Ransdell is running for the seat occupied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Although he admits he has no chance to win, Ransdell is using his campaign as a publicity stunt to push his and anti-Semitic views.
âEquality does not exist,â says Ransdell in a YouTube video featured at the top of his campaign webpage. âThere are differences between whites and blacks and blacks are more predisposed to criminal behavior and it doesnât matter what kind of economic state theyâre in. They are savages in a white nation, period.â The video, posted on Sept. 1, focuses almost entirely on âblack-on-whiteâ crime, a common talking point for white nationalists.
Since announcing his candidacy on the hate forums and Vanguard News Network (VNN) in late May, the Ransdell campaign has taken up residence at the domain whiteguard.us, named after an effort by late founder of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, to send young, fit, white males into cities to defend âsociety.â
In that vein, Ransdell announced plans to soon have âwhite men on the streetsâ around the University of Cincinnati. âWe are definitely out there to be a threat to those blacks who are a threat to our own,â said Ransdell. Despite the fact that the University of Cincinnati is located in Ohio, outside of his election district in Kentucky, Ransdell plans to move forward with his campaign promise of a âpro-white neighborhood watch.â
In Northern Kentucky, Ransdell has begun distributing campaign signs, eventually planning to circulate around 200 featuring his âWith Jews, We Lose!â slogan. There are already 20 displayed at busy intersections that have drawn the attention of local new stations.
Ransdell has also announced plans to push his hateful views on 55KRC, a talk radio station in Cincinnati that syndicates conservative personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck. His program will run for for seven consecutive weeks starting Sept. 21. According to Ransdell, heâs been allowed onto this mainstream venue due to access laws, which allow federal candidates for office to purchase radio time at a discounted rate.
55KRC did not respond to requests for comment.
In addition to posting his anti-Semitic signs, Randsdell has been wreaking general havoc. Last Wednesday, he appeared at the University of Kentuckyâs Constitution Day event. He was removed from the stage after delivering a white nationalist screed, while displaying his campaign signs, to an audience of high school and college students expecting to hear a speech about the principles of the constitution.
âI was about to get to the Constitution before I was cut off,â Ransdell told a reporter for WKYT. âBut I intended after traveling â Iâm up here near Cincinnati â after traveling that far to be forthright about something I believe in.â
Ransdell is receiving campaign help from at least one other notable white nationalist. , the organizer of the which took place nationally, and feebly, last March, registered Ransdellâs campaign website domain on Sept. 5. Hunt had been quiet since a bizarre April post in which he suggested using Easter egg hunts to promote white supremacy.
The Ransdell campaign has also been soliciting advice from Stormfront and VNN Forum members for months. Some of it has been quite critical. âUnless youâre running as a National Socialist,â writes âDonnie in Ohio,â âI would tone down the references to NS [National Socialism] and pre-war Germany. Itâs Kentucky, not KĂśnigsberg.â
Despite the advice, Ransdell has shown no signs of toning down his platform or his proselytizing in the final weeks leading up to the November 4 election.