Trump Adversary Khan Could Run for Office
Khizr Khan, the Pakistani-American lawyer whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004, could be running for office in the Virginia Assembly.
Democratic veterans rights activist Thomas Keefe created an online fundraising campaign to start the process for Khan to run for the Virginia House of Delegates, according to The Washington Post.
The campaign was hosted by funding site CROWDPAC.com, and currently has 68 individual donations amounting to $11,250. There is a notation under the donate button that notes the donor will only be charged if Khan decides to run.
The funding will go towards Khizr Khan directly, according to the campaign, although the information collected from donors is in keeping with federal campaign law.
“It would bring me great joy to see Khizr Khan take Bell’s seat,” Gail Donegan, one of the donors, wrote in her endorsement on the site. “I live in Alexandria but I pledge to canvas for Mr. Khan in Charlottesville if he decides to run. Please oh please oh please Mr. Khan…RUN!”
Twenty-five other individuals wrote encouraging messages urging the immigration lawyer and DNC speaker to run for office. The seat Keefe wants Khan to run for is currently held by Republican Delegate Rob Bell. Bell has won the seat every two years with an increasing majority since 2001. Bell won 96 percent of the vote in 2015. Thomas Jefferson held the seat before he became the third president of the United States.
Bell is the Chairman of the Criminal Law Legislative Committee, and is running for Virginia attorney general in 2017. Bell didn’t respond to a request for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last week attacked Trump, but also thrust the Charlottesville lawyer into the spotlight as his family and Republican nominee Donald Trump traded barbs through interviews and Twitter.
Ranking Republicans came to Khan’s aid: Former Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. John McCain, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte all condemned Trump’s statements regarding the parents of a fallen soldier.
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