Nazi-loving anti-LGBTQ+ mayoral candidate pulverized in Tuesday’s election

Williamson County Election Administrator Chad Gray told local Nashville news outlet NewsChannel5 that Hanson’s confusion about the voting machines was probably due to the fact that she skipped the tutorial on how the new machines work.

Hanson also reportedly banned the media from her election night party and charged $500 per ticket for those who wanted to attend, whereas Moore did not charge a fee at all.

Hanson’s campaign was riddled with controversy until the bitter end. Most recently, she doubled down on defending the Nazis and white supremacists who supported her campaign.

“I’m just going to tell you, from what I’ve seen, I do not see white supremacists, and I do not see Nazis,” Hanson reportedly said during a recent appearance on the conservative podcast Patriot Punkcast.

And yet, one of the people she was referring to, Brad Lewis, has said of himself: “I’m not a cuckservative, I’m an actual literal Nazi.” Lewis is a self-described friend of Hanson and a leader of the white supremacist group Tennessee Active Club, which accompanied Hanson to a candidate forum earlier this month.

Hanson invited the group to the event to provide security, and afterward she refused to apologize. “I’m not going to denounce anybody their right to be whatever it is that they want to be, whether I agree with what they do in their personal life or not,” Hanson said at the time. “We don’t discriminate in this community against anyone.”

According to NewsChannel5, Hanson also called Lewis “such a cool guy” since “he doesn’t care about what people think.”