‘If I were a Democrat they’d be calling it a hate crime’: Larry Elder slams the left for failing to call ‘angry, ugly’ attack by a woman in a gorilla mask racist because he’s a Republican

California governor hopeful Larry Elder has slammed Democrats for not calling attack on him a hate crime after a white woman in a gorilla mask was filmed throwing an egg at him on a campaign stop Wednesday.

On Thurday night, the GOP candidate told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight host Jesse Watters that he encountered the ‘very angry and ugly scene’ while he was touring a homeless encampment in Venice Beach.

‘If I were a Democrat, obviously, this would be called systemic racism, they’d be calling it a hate crime. I don’t like to play that game,’ he said. 

Speaking of the woman who attacked him, he said: ‘She might be one of the 20,000 people that were released early from our prisons; felons, many of whom were violent offenders under this governor, I don’t know. We have two soft-on-crime DA’s.’ 

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