Dem Senate hopeful holds event at bookstore selling 'ABOLISH ICE' merch despite pledge to 'secure the border'
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
A Democratic Senate hopeful in Iowa is pitching himself as a candidate who believes in the party's "old Democratic values."
However, on Saturday, State Senator Zach Wahls hosted a campaign event at a radical activist bookstore, Dog-Eared Books, that has been vocal about abolishing ICE, financially supports anti-ICE nonprofits, holds drag story time for kids, and promotes books banned in schools for their sexually explicit content, among other far-left activism the store engages in.
Fox News Digital asked Wahls ahead of the event if he was aware of the bookstore's radical track record and whether he regretted holding a campaign event there, but Wahls never responded.
Meanwhile, Wahls' campaign website promises Iowans he will work to "secure the border and fix our broken immigration system," and in posts on social media he has insisted that the nation must have an immigration system based on "law and order."
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"I believe in the old Democratic values of hard work and family, not handouts for billionaires and insiders," Wahls also touts in a campaign video pinned to the top of his X account.
Video obtained by Fox News Digital from outside the Ames, Iowa, bookstore where Wahls held his campaign meet-and-greet event at alongside his novelist wife, titled "Reading and Running: A conversation with Zach Wahls and Chloe Angyal," showed at least one sign right next to the front entrance reading "ICE IS NOT WELCOME HERE" in bold capital letters. The store has hosted events for Wahls' wife in the past prior to Saturday, and sells her romance novels.
In the wake of the federal agent-involved shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the bookstore created a logo of a dog in sunglasses holding a protest sign that reads "ABOLISH ICE," and even put it on a stickler the store is selling on its website.
Following the shootings of Good and Pretti, the store also pledged to donate 25% of its sales to a network of mostly anonymous philanthropic groups called the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Some of the groups that have been publicly reported to be affiliated with the fund, include anti-ICE groups like the George Soros-funded Headwaters Foundation for Justice, which says it "believe[s] in a future without ICE," and the Black Collective Foundation Minnesota.
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This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
A Democratic Senate hopeful in Iowa is pitching himself as a candidate who believes in the party's "old Democratic values."
However, on Saturday, State Senator Zach Wahls hosted a campaign event at a radical activist bookstore, Dog-Eared Books, that has been vocal about abolishing ICE, financially supports anti-ICE nonprofits, holds drag story time for kids, and promotes books banned in schools for their sexually explicit content, among other far-left activism the store engages in.
Fox News Digital asked Wahls ahead of the event if he was aware of the bookstore's radical track record and whether he regretted holding a campaign event there, but Wahls never responded.
Meanwhile, Wahls' campaign website promises Iowans he will work to "secure the border and fix our broken immigration system," and in posts on social media he has insisted that the nation must have an immigration system based on "law and order."
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"I believe in the old Democratic values of hard work and family, not handouts for billionaires and insiders," Wahls also touts in a campaign video pinned to the top of his X account.
Video obtained by Fox News Digital from outside the Ames, Iowa, bookstore where Wahls held his campaign meet-and-greet event at alongside his novelist wife, titled "Reading and Running: A conversation with Zach Wahls and Chloe Angyal," showed at least one sign right next to the front entrance reading "ICE IS NOT WELCOME HERE" in bold capital letters. The store has hosted events for Wahls' wife in the past prior to Saturday, and sells her romance novels.
In the wake of the federal agent-involved shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the bookstore created a logo of a dog in sunglasses holding a protest sign that reads "ABOLISH ICE," and even put it on a stickler the store is selling on its website.
Following the shootings of Good and Pretti, the store also pledged to donate 25% of its sales to a network of mostly anonymous philanthropic groups called the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Some of the groups that have been publicly reported to be affiliated with the fund, include anti-ICE groups like the George Soros-funded Headwaters Foundation for Justice, which says it "believe[s] in a future without ICE," and the Black Collective Foundation Minnesota.
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Dem Senate hopeful holds event at bookstore selling 'ABOLISH ICE' merch despite pledge to 'secure the border'
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
A Democratic Senate hopeful in Iowa is pitching himself as a candidate who believes in the party's "old Democratic values."
However, on Saturday, State Senator Zach Wahls hosted a campaign event at a radical activist bookstore, Dog-Eared Books, that has been vocal about abolishing ICE, financially supports anti-ICE nonprofits, holds drag story time for kids, and promotes books banned in schools for their sexually explicit content, among other far-left activism the store engages in.
Fox News Digital asked Wahls ahead of the event if he was aware of the bookstore's radical track record and whether he regretted holding a campaign event there, but Wahls never responded.
Meanwhile, Wahls' campaign website promises Iowans he will work to "secure the border and fix our broken immigration system," and in posts on social media he has insisted that the nation must have an immigration system based on "law and order."
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"I believe in the old Democratic values of hard work and family, not handouts for billionaires and insiders," Wahls also touts in a campaign video pinned to the top of his X account.
Video obtained by Fox News Digital from outside the Ames, Iowa, bookstore where Wahls held his campaign meet-and-greet event at alongside his novelist wife, titled "Reading and Running: A conversation with Zach Wahls and Chloe Angyal," showed at least one sign right next to the front entrance reading "ICE IS NOT WELCOME HERE" in bold capital letters. The store has hosted events for Wahls' wife in the past prior to Saturday, and sells her romance novels.
In the wake of the federal agent-involved shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the bookstore created a logo of a dog in sunglasses holding a protest sign that reads "ABOLISH ICE," and even put it on a stickler the store is selling on its website.
Following the shootings of Good and Pretti, the store also pledged to donate 25% of its sales to a network of mostly anonymous philanthropic groups called the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Some of the groups that have been publicly reported to be affiliated with the fund, include anti-ICE groups like the George Soros-funded Headwaters Foundation for Justice, which says it "believe[s] in a future without ICE," and the Black Collective Foundation Minnesota.
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