Young Republicans mock congressional candidate for ‘resembling’ Dylan Mulvaney
Jennifer Jenkins and Dylan Mulvaney (X/Jenkins4Florida | Getty Images)
A Florida Young Republicans group mocked a cisgender candidate for Congress over her resemblance to actress Dylan Mulvaney.
Jennifer Jenkins posted to Facebook to advertise a Tall Hall as part of her campaign challenging Republican Florida Rep. Mike Haridopolos. In response to the post, the Space Coast Young Republicans posted a photo of Mulvaney to the comments.
A former North Carolina candidate for Congress, Austin Ayers, jumped on the bandwagon by later posting to his own Facebook page about Jenkins. In his post, he used an image of Dylan Mulvaney with the text “Jennifer Jenkins For Florida is CANCELLING her bid for Congress to pursue other career choices!”
‘Just the same tired obsession with transgender people’
Jenkins responded to the comment and post on X saying: “Imagine being so desperate to defend Mike Haridopolos that your big political strategy is… calling an opponent ‘Dylan Mulvaney.’ That’s it? That’s the joke?”
She continued to say: “No thoughts on housing costs. No thoughts on insurance. No thoughts on healthcare. Just the same tired obsession with transgender people that Republicans drag out whenever they don’t want to talk about their record.”
Jenkins also called out the fact that people around Haridopolos seem so comfortable with this kind of rhetoric and that he “never seems to have a problem with it”, before ending her post saying: “Brevard deserves leaders, not people who think bigotry is a substitute for a platform.”
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