During an interview on the Jim Engster Show, audio of which was obtained by BuzzFeed, Duke calls Scalise a “sellout” for saying his appearance at a meeting of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization in 2002 was a “mistake.”
“He’s a sellout,” Duke said. “He’s not David. He used to say that he was David Duke — of course, without the baggage, whatever that means.”
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If both Maness and Duke challenged him, however, Louisiana’s jungle primary system — in which the top-two vote getters head to a runoff if no candidate gets more than 50% in a primary — would give Scalise a better-than-even shot at re-election.
