Trumper GOP Senate Candidate Suggests Drag Queens In Military Lure Weak Recruits [Video]

Using drag queens as an example, GOP Senate candidate Hung Cao claimed in a debate Wednesday that diversity efforts are not attracting courageous “alpha” types into the military.

Cao, a former Navy captain endorsed by former President Donald Trump, was in a televised showdown against his rival, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). A moderator mentioned Cao’s previous criticism of the Biden administration’s “growing obsession” with DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion, and asked Cao to explain how that approach has “impacted” recruiting.

Cao detoured into his personal experience after 9/11 and argued that vaccine mandates during the pandemic discouraged enlistment even further, before the moderator drew him back to the original question about recruiting.

“When you’re using a, you know, drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that’s not the people we want,” Cao replied. “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, …