Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an American far-right and anti-Muslim political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality. She was the Republican nominee to represent Florida’s 21st congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, losing to Democrat Lois Frankel. She has been banned from numerous social media platforms, payment processors, vehicles for hire and food delivery mobile apps, and other establishments for various reasons, including violating policies on hate speech and spreading misinformation. She handcuffed herself to Twitter’s headquarters in New York for two hours before police cut through the handcuffs at her request.
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Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an American far-right and anti-Muslim political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality. She was the Republican nominee to represent Florida’s 21st congressional district in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections, losing to Democrat Lois Frankel. She has been banned from numerous social media platforms, payment processors, vehicles for hire and food delivery mobile apps, and other establishments for various reasons, including violating policies on hate speech and spreading misinformation. After her 2018 ban from Twitter, she handcuffed herself to Twitter’s headquarters in New York for two hours before police cut through the handcuffs at her request. In March 2015, she used a concealed video camera to record her conversations with Barry University officials, discussing the idea of starting a club called ‘Sympathetic Students in Support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’ The school apparently asked only that the club’s name be changed to ‘Students in support of the Middle East’ In June 2017, she gave a crowd of anti-sharia marchers a speech at a New York City performance of Julius Caesar. On June 16, she put a burqa on the Fearless Girl statue at Bowling Green in lower Manhattan. On November 8, 2016, the day of the U.S. Presidential election, she went to a polling station dressed as Huma Abedin and asked for a ballot under the name ‘Huma Abedin’ She is Jewish. She attended Mount Holyoke College, leaving after one semester; she said she felt targeted for being conservative.
She transferred to Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, and graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. She worked for Project Veritas, a right-wing group known for producing secretly recorded and deceptively edited undercover audio and video investigations of media organizations and left-leaning groups. She also briefly reported for the Canadian far- right news website The Rebel Media in 2017, and has occasionally reported for Americanfar-right conspiracy theory and fake news website InfoWars. She lost the 2020 US House of Reps election to incumbent Democrat LoisFrankel in Florida’s 21st Congressional district. She received endorsements from Florida Representative Matt Gaetz and former Trump adviser Roger Stone. In August 2020, she defeated five opponents to win the Republican primary in August2020, receiving 14,500 votes out of 34,000 cast. Trump expressed support for her primary win, tweeting, ‘Great going Laura. You have a great chance against a Pelosi puppet!’ She also received endorsement from former Trump Adviser Roger Stone, who said she had a ‘great chance’ of winning the primary. She is a graduate of Barry University, where she was an honors student in her senior year and the president of the Young Republicans Club. In the summer of 2017, Looming resigned from her job as a journalist for The Rebel media.
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