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Far-right influencer Candace Owens will no longer attend Trump fundraiser after outcry
Candace Owens speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida on February 25, 2022. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)
Candace Owens, a far-right influencer who has been accused in recent months of advancing antisemitic tropes, will no longer attend an upcoming campaign fundraiser for Donald Trump, Jewish Insider reports.
The report, citing a source familiar with the event, says news of her plans to attend sparked a backlash from conservative critics and Jewish allies of Trump.
Owens had been expected to attend the event to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday, headlined by the GOP presidential nominee’s son Donald Trump Jr.
In April, Owens broke ranks with Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew who runs a conservative media outlet, in part over Owens’s seeming embrace of Christian antisemitic tropes, including that Jews imbibe blood.
