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[quote=Anonymous]A Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut dropped out of the race Tuesday as voters were going to the polls in his primary election following his arrest in an assault case.

Thomas Gilmer, the party-endorsed candidate, was arrested Monday night on charges of first-degree unlawful restraint and second-degree strangulation. He posted a $5,000 bond. The charges stem from a May 2017 attack on a former girlfriend and a July 22 interview with the victim, according to Wethersfield police.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, police have a video of the incident that was provided by Gilmer’s Republican opponent, Justin Anderson. It shows Gilmer “punch the victim in the face and jump on top of her as she falls to the ground. Gilmer then attempts to choke the victim followed by multiple closed fist punches to the victim’s face,” according to the report.

He then places her in a chokehold and she appears to be “struggling for her life,” according to the affidavit.”

https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/connecticut-house-candidate-thomas-gilmer-quits-race-after-arrest/

Gilmer, a Liberty University graduate working in private equity and construction, only lost to his GOP opponent, a lieutenant colonel in the Connecticut National Guard, by a half a dozen votes. His favorite books are the Bible and “The Heart and the Fist” by Eric Greitens, the Republican Governor of Missouri who resigned in disgrace after a woman he had an affair with accused him of unwanted kissing and sexual touching, violently slapping and spanking her, coercing her into performing oral sex on him, and threatening to blackmail her.
https://ballotpedia.org/Thomas_Gilmer

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Republican Party.[/quote]

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